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Revenge tragedy
Popular drama type in the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, encapsulated in Shakespeare's Hamlet. The protagonist takes real or imagined injury as the reason for taking revenge on another character. Revenge tragedies are often extremely sinister and violent.
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