Supplementary Material: Revenge Tragedy (1 Viewer)

[glitterfairy]

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SONG LYRICS
- Rocky Racoon by The Beatles

NOVELS
- Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcaterra
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- The Stars Tennis Balls by Stephen Frey
- The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by Thomas Keneally
- The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
- Address Unknown by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
- The Lifes and Loves of a She Devil by Fay Weldon

PLAYS
- The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd
- Thyestes by Seneca
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- Macbeth by William Shakespeare
- Othello by William Shakespeare
- Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
- Antigone by Sohpocles
- Oedipus Rex/Oedipus the King by Sophocles
- The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

FILMS
- Alex Cox
- An Eye for an Eye
- Batman Begins
- Braveheart
- Cruel Intentions
- Dead Man's Revenge
- Double Jeopardy
- Fatal Attraction
- Gangs of New York
- Get Carter
- Gladiator
- Henesey
- Irreversible (MA 18+: “It's a seriously stomach-turning movie which will leave you horrified for at least 24 hours. When first released, people literally walked out of the cinemas with disgust.”)
- Kill Bill
- Momento
- Munich
- Mystic River
- O (as in modern interpretation of “Othello”)
- One Hour Photo
- Patriot Games
- Payback
- Road to Perdition
- Robocop
- Romeo Must Die
- Sleepers
- Star Chamber
- Sweet Revenge
- Swimfan
- Time To Kill
- Titus / Titus Andronicus
- The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
- The Crow
- Unfaithful
- Unforgiven
- V for Vendetta
- What lies beneath
- Witness

MISC
- Rigoletto (Italian Opera, related links: http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com...to_(opera) - This is the general synopsis of each Act. There are lots of these on the net, if you want to look for them
http://opera.prohosting.com/sarir/rigoletto.html - This is also an overview, but with some analysis
http://www.aria-database.com/cgibin/...ra=Rigoletto&a - This is a list of the arias, and I think they all have translations. Most of them do, at any rate.
links provided by roseangel)

 

[ellen180069]

hamlet can't be used as an extension english supplementary text because it is used in the advanced english hsc course... i'm probably stating the obvious to most of you, but i just thought i'd let u know!!

p.s thanx for the list

 

[spacetoaster]

Films - The Limey.
- Rob Roy.
- 8 Women (French film)
Short Stories - Have a look at some of Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected (e.g. William and Mary).You would have to do some serious bull-artistry around the tragedy aspects, but they could work if you can't find anything else.
You could also try the older versions of The Pied Piper of Hamlin - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pied_Piper_of_Hamelin.
Poems - R. Browning's My Last Duchess is a possibility.
Misc. - Some episodes of Buffy also deal with revenge and subsequently tragedy, especially in season six, but you'd need some bull-artistry again.

 

[Alkomesh2]

Buffy Season 2 - Passions

And Stan by Eminem.

 

[spacetoaster]

Just saw The Brave One. Definitely a revenge tragedy.

 

[mitchellevelyn]

Rantastic related material : Man on Fire, directed by Tony Scott. Bodyguard befriends his charge, charge gets kidnapped, bodyguard gets shot by corrupt cops diring the kidnapping, girl gets killed, bodyguard kells a couple of dozen people, takes kidnappers brother hostage, finds out girl is actually alive, trades himself for the girl. Bodyguard dies, girl lives.

Its practically Hamlet

 

[Ezzz1990]

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
It also helps in a way if you studied it in Year 11 Extension as a Gothic Genre text. Because the BOS doesn't know what you studied in Year 11.

 

[u-borat]

Memento Mori by Jonathon Nolan, the short story precursor to Memento.
Brilliant short story, found on the internet.

 

[L-dog]

Dogville?

 

[HarlequinBride]

Mariner's Revenge by The Decemberists