Renaissance Tragedy and Investigating HeroesThe role of the investigator in Renaissance tragedy, with particular reference to Shakespeare's Hamlet and Thomas Kyd's The Spanish TragedyI will so, depending on the circumstances, try, what I can muster to confirm it written Hieronimo The play is the thing In which I will catch the conscience of King Hamlet The roots of the flowering tree of detective fiction go back to ancient soil of the Bible and beyond, into literature that contains mysteries to be solved and characters who act as detectives. Mystery was present in classical Greek tragedy. In Oedipus the King (c. 429 BC), the identity of Oedipus is a mystery whose resolution influences the movement of the plot. In fact, the very term “anagnorisis” indicates a discovery, the revelation of a mystery. In biblical times, one of the first acts of "detection" may have occurred when Herod killed all the newborns on a particular night in an attempt to eliminate the prophesied child to ruin him. We also have other examples of detection before Christ; prophets, like Daniel, could interpret dreams. It was detection in the sense that they had to interpret symbolic images to understand their meaning. In this sense, prophets could be called “inquirers.” But these dreams were very often interpreted in a visionary state of mind, so detection in the strictest sense cannot be used here. We also have detection in the 12th-century German epic Nibelungenlied where Hagen, Brunhild's minister of vengeance, coaxes the secret of the vulnerable point of Siegfried's body from Kriemhild. In romantic fiction, we see for the first time in European literature, a systematic use of mystery...... middle of paper ...... Zadig's innocence was recognized - he was presented before the Grand Desterhan where he pleaded his case in these terms: “This is what happened to me. I was heading towards the little wood, where I recently met the venerable eunuch and the most illustrious vizier. I had seen the tracks of an animal on the sand, and I easily judged that they were those of a small dog. The light and long furrows printed on the small eminences of the sand between the tracks of the legs showed me that it was a female and that she had. recently gave birth to puppies. Other traces which seemed to have continually raised the surface of the sand on the side of the front legs told me that it had long ears. As I noticed that the sand was always less crushed by one foot than by three others, I understood that the dog of our august Queen was, if I dare say, a little lame..."