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"the croaking raven doth bellow for revenge"
Allusion
Act 3,
Scene 2
Lines 234-235

An explanation of the allusion to revenge tragedy in Act 3, Scene 2 of myShakespeare’s Hamlet.

Hamlet

[To the Players] Begin, murderer, leave thy damnable faces and 
begin. Come, the croaking raven does bellow for revenge.    

Hamlet rephrases two lines from a famous revenge tragedy, True Tragedy of Richard III: "The screeching raven sits croaking for revenge; / Whole herds of beasts come bellowing for revenge."