[Teacher317]

I’m giving myself credit... All night, I’ve been right on the razor’s edge of changing the channel every 13 seconds, but I haven’t done it yet...

[xp38]

There is a label for a certain type of drama in the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean period called Revenge plays. Near the end almost everyone dies. Hamlet is an example.

Conventions of Revenge Plays

The ghost of the murdered victim urges revenge (Hamlet, Spanish Tragedy),
Metatheatricality
Madness
Murder
Cannibalism