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While perhaps influenced by writers of revenge tragedy before him, Shakespeare produced in "Hamlet," a work that was altogether new. Bold. And defining all its own.

A group of English playwrights, collectively known as the University Wits, transformed popular drama during the Elizabethan era.

When Elizabethan playwrights found the public loved gruesome tales of revenge, they embarked on a new genre. And it became a monster...

Imagi announced that veteran scribe Timothy Harris (Twins, Space Jam) will pen the script for their upcoming adaptation of Astro Boy. Movie comes to theatres in 2009.

A quintessentially modernist poem, "The Waste Land" is noted for its length, frequent use of allusion, foreign language phrases, and fragmented style.

Hamlet is considered to be one of the finest revenge tragedies of its time. Shakespeare principally uses traditional conventions that were first introduced by Seneca.