A : One of the earliest instances of 'Revenge Tragedy' is the Oresteia of Aeschylus. B : Thomas Kyd…
Aeschylus's 'Oresteia' (458 BCE) is one of the earliest classical instances of revenge tragedy (A is true), and Thomas Kyd's 'The Spanish Tragedy' (c. 1587) established the…
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A : One of the earliest instances of 'Revenge Tragedy' is the Oresteia of Aeschylus.
B : Thomas Kyd established the genre of 'revenge tragedy' in England with The Spanish Tragedy.
C : The Elizabethan dramatist took Lope de Vego as a model.
On the basis of the above mentioned statements choose the correct option.
Answer and explanation
Correct answer A
Aeschylus's 'Oresteia' (458 BCE) is one of the earliest classical instances of revenge tragedy (A is true), and Thomas Kyd's 'The Spanish Tragedy' (c. 1587) established the revenge tragedy genre on the Elizabethan stage (B is true). However, Elizabethan revenge dramatists took the Roman tragedian Seneca—not the Spanish playwright Lope de Vega—as their model (C is false).
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