Abstract This article studies the dominant genre of revenge tragedy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The author of this article has presented a complete coverage of this genre in these periods. He has started his study from the earliest days of writing revenge plays; the writer also presented the characteristics of this genre and then moved into the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In doing so, the author has covered the most important playwrights of these ages who wrote revenge plays including Thomas Kyd, William Shakespeare, John Marston, George Chapman, Tourneur and John Webster.

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