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 willingness to disregard the importance of Shakespeare's authorship in the text, in accordance with earlier understandings of authorship, a constant facet of "Hamlet" discussions. This is not to say that "Fratricide Punished" is without influence on theatrical productions. Both Q1 Hamlet and "Fratricide Punished" place their scenes in a different order than do the Q2 and folio versions of "Hamlet", and this may have inspired stage directors to reorder their own productions of "Hamlet" in turn. A version of "Fratricide Punished" was performed at the NADA theater in New York City for the "Hamlet" Festival of 1994 alongside a rap