it enabled them to depicthuman passions, render rhetorical speeches, and present violent action. The dramatic valueof these fighters was great in the secular theatre. Early dramatists are as well as early audiences considered vengeance to be a pious duty laid on the next of kin; it was wild justice, but for drama to be satisfactory and successful.The old law claimed an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, vengeance demanded boththe eyes, a jaw full of teeth, and above all, the victim should go straight…
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