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The Tragedy of Hoffman

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"The Tragedy of Hoffman" is a revenge tragedy written by Henry Chettle, an English dramatist of the Elizabethan Age. It is the only play attributed solely to Chettle that is still extant. Revenge tragedies were a popular genre in English drama during the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, often featuring a ghost, a protagonist driven to seek vengeance for a wrong, and a climactic scene of widespread death. "The Tragedy of Hoffman" was performed in 1602 and printed in 1631.12

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  1. Henry Chettle
  2. revenge tragedy
  3. Hugo von Hofmannsthal

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