revenge tragedy
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.90 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A theatrical genre in which revenge and its fatal consequences are the principal themes.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Jacobean revenge tragedy"
- "Created as a theatrical form, the cult that had glorified female virtue was particularly useful in the representation of women in revenge tragedy, the darkly nostalgic genre devoted to the exposure of injustice, favoritism, and corruption."
Usage
Inflected Forms
Synonyms
revenge drama
revenge play