Abstract
This comparative analysis of Shakespeare’s revenge tragedy and Robert Penn Warren’s prose tragedy proposes to highlight the powerful Shakespearian elements which contributed to shaping the theme of transgression in All the Kings Men. In each work a Primal Scene relates some sexual truth about an earlier generation, this truth being held in tension against the political corruption in the main narrative. Thus, the critical approach to these two works pivots on the assumption that primal romance and Fall in Hamlet are linked to the Prelapsarian structure of All the Kings Men.
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