revenge tragedy in a sentence
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- As long as revenge is an underlying theme or motivation throughout the piece, it can be labeled as revenge tragedy.
- His blood-drenched climax has an almost ritualistic inevitability, like the end of a Jacobean revenge tragedy or a Kurosawa film.
- Carter's killing of Brumby and his own assassination were further alterations from the novel, emphasising the film's parallels with revenge tragedy
- Lies and greed are its twin motors, and it sweeps you along in its steady descent like a Jacobean revenge tragedy.
- It is said that this play was the initiator of the style for many Elizabethan revenge tragedies, most notably Hamlet.
- Taymor's film treatment of Shakespeare's bleak revenge tragedy, opened Christmas Day in New York and Los Angeles to qualify for the Oscars.
- Most scholars argue that the revenge tragedies of William Shakespeare and his contemporaries stemmed from Roman Tragedies, in particular, Hippolytus " ).
- The Greek revenge tragedy, with Fiona Shaw in the title role, begins a limited engagement Dec . 10, closing Feb . 22.
- He is currently playing Francisco in Maria Aberg's RSC production of John Webster's revenge tragedy The White Devil at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
- In 2004 she earned a PhD in English literature, specializing in Renaissance Drama and writing her dissertation on ghosts in English Renaissance revenge tragedy.