Fratricide broadly on the Ramayana and on Rama's killing of Raavan with the active support of the latter's estranged younger brother Vibhisan - on whom Raavan had vowed black vengeance and on the killing of Bali (again by Rama) with the ready contrivance of his younger, disgruntled and banished, sibling Sugreev, has succinctly expressed this in a couplet: "Irony? What Irony?! If not that the seed of destruction carried in the heart of one brother was sowed and reaped to the full by the hand of another!" The only known fratricide in the Roman Empire is the fairly well known murder
Fratricide Punished to replicate (albeit in reverse) the kind of problems that those actors would have experienced in conveying meaning across language barriers. In an essay published by the "Shakespeare Bulletin", Schmidle described the kinds of abridgments and added physicality that her troupe undertook in creating a play that would be accessible to the audience. Ultimately, she decided that "Fratricide Punished" represented a kind of road map to the play's origins, and that her performance clearly demonstrated that the differences existing between "Hamlet" and the text were made entirely in order to better convey meaning. Fratricide Punished Fratricide Punished, or "The Tragedy