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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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* [[Parental Incest]]: Between the Duchess and Spurio.
* [[Parody]]: Of revenge-tragedies.
* [[Reality Subtext]]: Since this play came out during the reign of James I, but the author is clearly looking back toward the days of [[Elizabeth I (miniseries)|Elizabeth I]], there are lots of references to women's virginity ("[[The Virgin Queen]]"), and anti-royal sentiments.
* [[Revenge Before Reason]]: Very much so. In fact, {{spoiler|when Vindice brags to Antonio about how they killed the Duke, and everyone else in his family, and Antonio sentences them to death, Vindice seems happy to accept his fate}}.
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: Vindice.
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'''Vindice:''' I set my fate at naught, so that I have revenge. }}
* [[Stealth Insult]]
* [[Squick]]:
** Vindice's revenge.
** The Duke's admitting to Vindice (while he is disguised as Piato), with a chuckle, that after he killed Vindice's wife for not sleeping with him, [[Crosses the Line Twice|he raped her corpse.]]
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