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 undertaken by English actors performing in German-speaking lands. While scholars generally agree that "Fratricide Punished" is a memorial reconstruction descended from some form of "Hamlet", it remains uncertain from which "Hamlet" it comes. The differences and similarities between "Fratricide Punished" and the three major forms of "Hamlet" were examined line-by-line by George Duthie in his 1941 criticism of the so-called "bad quarto" of Q1, and the "Variorum" of Furness published the texts side-by-side as well. Their analyses found a play that contained elements both of Q1 "Hamlet", published in 1603 but unknown until 1823, and the more familiar versions of