Analyse two prescribed and related texts on how composers conform to the Revenge Tragedy genre to suit their context, purpose and style. In your answer draw on your knowledge of the conventions of the genre. Certainly a genre is dynamic, fluid and subject to mutability over time. This is because it is adapted by composers to suit a particular context or cultural ideology or even the composers own ideology. Genre may also change owing to …showed first 75 words of 1867 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1867 total…though it is the reasons for revenge, the plot, the act of retribution and subsequent ethical issues that will always differ and this is why composers have redefined or subverted some conventions of the genre to reflect the context or to express their own viewpoint. However, it can not be denied that it is because of these manipulations of the conventions that the genre has evolved over time becoming more and more fascinating for audiences.