The Revenger's Tragedy - Acting Edition

THE STORY: This mesmerizing Jacobean thriller, written a few years after Hamlet, is a searing examination of humankind's social need for justice and our animal desire for vengeance. Vindice, the Revenger, sets off a chain reaction of havoc in a corrupt and decadent Venice, which exposes outrageous indulgences and government hypocrisy, and ends in a coup de th tre massacre of epic proportions. Part black comedy, part social satire, the play is a gleefully macabre plot-twisting blender full of Shakespeare's greatest hits.Cyril Tourneur or Anonymous, incorporating material from the writings of Francis Bacon, John Donne, Thomas Kyd, John Marston, William Shakespeare and John Webster freely adapted by Jesse Berger from the original text by Thomas Middleton is the author of 'The Revenger's Tragedy - Acting Edition', published 2006 under ISBN 9780822221456 and ISBN 0822221454.