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The Revenger's Tragedy: Thomas Middleton

Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre by Oxford University

Nov 6, 200945:30Education

A blackly camp tragedy - Hamlet without the narcissism - set in a court corrupted by lust and self-interest, this play is both fascinated and repelled by its own depravity.

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