The play opens with the hero walking on the stage with the skull of his fiancee and vowing vengeance upon the duke who raped and murdered her.  
The play opens with the hero walking on the stage with the skull of his fiancee and vowing vengeance upon the duke who raped and murdered her.  In disguise as Piato, he arranges a liaison between the duke and a woman who turns out to be the fiancee's skeleton; the duke kisses the poisoned skull and dies while watching his bastard son cuckold him.  This is, FTP, the plot description of what Jacobean tragedy about the appropriately-named Vindice, attributed variously to Cyril Tourneur or Thomas Middleton?
The play opens with the hero walking on the stage with the skull of his fiancee and vowing vengeance upon the duke who raped and murdered her.  
The Revenger's Tragedy