Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price The ghoulish and bloody 16th-century tragedy. The ghost of a murdered courtier is promised by Revenge that he will see his murderer killed by his mistress. The two ghostly figures sit down to watch the violent proceedings. With an Introduction by Simon Trussler 'A murky world of royal skulduggery, hangings, knifings and delayed revenge, which is by no means remote from our own violent times' — Evening Standard