Hamlet - Elizabethan Revenge in Hamlet

occur throughout the entire play. The accomplices on both sides are

killed. The villain is full of villainous devices. The revenge is

accomplished terribly and fittingly. The final point that Thomas Kyd

made about his play was that minor characters are left to deal with

the situation at the end of the play.

The Spanish Tragedy follows these rules made by Kyd very

closely, simply because Kyd developed these rules from the play. The

fundamental motive was revenge because that was the central theme of

the play. The ghost of Andrea sees his father kill the men who

murdered Andrea originally. Hieronimo hesitates first because he goes

to the king and then he is faced with Isabella's madness which is

caused by Andrea's death. The play is filled with all kinds of bloody

action and many people die throughout the course of the play. The

accomplices in the play also all end up dead. Lorenzo who is the true

villain, is full of all kinds of evil villainous devices. The revenge

works out perfectly, in that both Lorenzo and Balthazar get murdered

in the end by Hieronimo. The minor characters were left to clean up

the mess of all of the deaths that occurred during the play. The

Spanish Tragedy also follows the conventions of Elizabethan theater

very closely. The murder was committed and Hieronimo had to take

justice into his own hands, because true justice just simply wasn't

available. Hieronimo then delays his revenge for many different

reasons that occur in the play. The ghost of Andrea appeared and

guided Hieronimo to the direction of his killer. Also at the end of

the play, both Hieronimo and his accomplices die after they were

successful in committing the revenge.

In Hamlet, Shakespeare follows regular convention for a large

part of the play. In the beginning, Shakespeare sets up the scene,

having a ghost on a dark night. Ev ...