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This thesis centers on the depiction of violence onstage , specifically the violent acts of regicide and assassination . The first chapter briefly reviews the depiction of violence in theatre from the Ancient Greeks through the Middle Ages . The second chapter focuses on Shakespeare's two tragedies , Hamlet and Macbeth , and briefly discusses the sources for the theme of regicide within the plays and how that regicide is depicted . The third chapter examines the theme of assassination and its depiction within two modern plays , Keith Reddin’s Frame 312 and Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s musical Assassins . |
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