[Tdol's Blog] Forum Policies- The Revenger's Tragedy

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Tdol

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Forum Policies- The Revenger's Tragedy



In the Jacobean play The Revenger's Tragedy, the central figure, Vindice or Vendice, starts out as someone who has suffered injustice- the murder of his love, but soon the play descends into a bloodbath where the victim has so exceeded any offence that he has become worse than the wrong he set out to right, only far worse. It seems appropriate for the forum context that there are different spellings of the protagonist's name, and doubt about the identity of the author

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Nice analogy and a good piece of advice, Tdol.
 

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The similarities stood out for me. ;-)
 
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