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Revenge has been a popular literary theme historically and continues to play a role in contemporary works. [31] Examples of literature that feature revenge as a theme include the plays Hamlet and Othello by William Shakespeare, the novel The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, and the short story "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe.
Other examples of revenge tragedies include The Jew of Malta (1589, Christopher Marlowe), Antonio’s Revenge (1600, John Marston), and The Revenge of Bussy D’Ambois (1613, George Chapman). In his essay "Of Revenge", Francis Bacon wrote "This is certain, that a man studieth revenge, keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and ...
The revenge tragedy, or revenge play, is a dramatic genre in which the protagonist seeks revenge for an imagined or actual injury. [1] The term revenge tragedy was first introduced in 1900 by A. H. Thorndike to label a class of plays written in the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean eras (circa 1580s to 1620s).
A user who goes by the name emzieees recalled a story about her time in college — and the ending does not disappoint. She explained that her university had an unofficial Snapchat page, with ...
Alfonso Cuarón's Apple TV+ miniseries, premiering Friday, is a fairly straightforward revenge story, though whether or not the revenge is deserved is a central question of its contortionist plot.
Fiction about revenge, committing a harmful action against a person or group in response to a grievance, be it real or perceived. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Revenge in fiction . Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable.
But man did his revenge backfire. Fox News says, "Talk about instant karma. Guy on a motorcycle drives by a car, kicks the side of it then immediately.
The story, set in an unnamed Italian city at carnival time, is about a man taking fatal revenge on a friend who, he believes, has insulted him. Like several of Poe's stories, and in keeping with the 19th-century fascination with the subject, the narrative follows a person being buried alive – in this case, by immurement.