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It's convoluted, disgusting and full of over-the-top gory acts of vengeance. Some people think that it was intended as a parody of the revenge-tragedy genre so popular at the time. And of ''[[Hamlet]]'' in particular (see [[Take That]], below).
There is a 2002 film adaptation which sets the play in post-apocalyptic Liverpool (or just Liverpool), and stars [[Christopher Eccleston]] as Vindice.
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* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: The 2002 version cuts some of the subplots, to streamline the story. And, you know, updates it a lot.
* [[Alas, Poor Yorick]]: [[Playing with a Trope|Played with]]; since ''[[Hamlet]]'' came out a few years earlier, it's clearly poking fun at that scene.
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