Supplementary Material For Revenge Tragedy (1 Viewer)

[Alex]

Has anybody got any supplementary material for RT "BESIDES" 'The Duchess of Malfi' and 'White Devil'?

 

[sunny]

We can get 'Sweet Revenge' (that film we watched for our assessment) from our teacher when we get back.

Listen in class Alex!

 

[Alex]

i dont like it, simple. Plus havent you heard about classes that use the same supplementary material?

 

[sunny]

We've only got 2 classes.

Pretty much everyone will be using Duchess Of Malfi and some of the other ones, since they were the recommended ones. It'll be easier if most of the material is mainstream stuff, so if you ever need help it'll be easier to get simple!

 

[afrogirl]

our class has viewed a great source..."The Man From Laramie"
it's about as bad as a Western can get (my teacher has a fetish for Westerns) but it's an excellent (and entertaining, easy to understand) RT.

 

[medea]

some extra texts such as

-'cousin bette' - a film starring jessica lange
- crouching tiger, hidden dragon
- ofcourse , everyone always uses Hamlet, it's the ultimate revenge play
- francis bacon's short essay 'of revenge'

i'll telly ou when i think of more texts you could use

 

[Alex]

Hamlet, out teacher said to refrain from doing so because it doesn't fit all the conventions of a revenge tragedy. Saying that I don't know for certain cause I don't know Hamlet so if you prove me wrong be subtle

 

[medea]

there is some flaw in your teacher's argument

'it doesn't fit all the conventions of revenge tragedy'

but the point is that there really isn't a list of conventions that that ALL revenge plays must adhere to. and i'd be shocked if you jsut chose texts because they all had corresponding themes and conventions. the point is to recognise that not all revenge tragedies are the same and to struggle and grapple with different notions of revenge, also acknowledging some similar conventions and some different ones, atleast that's what i think a sophisticated response would have.

hamlet is a great revenge tragedy for many reasons, unlike other plays shakespeare is one who has developed this whole other aspect of revenge tragedy, what happens when revenge is forced upon you, you don't want to , but you are forced, how does a character deal with that. its one of the most psychologically haunting plays. the tragedy at the end is not that he died but the pains he went thru trying to grapple with his task. shakespeare protrays revenge not just an act, he dpoes more, he explores the mind, the psyche of the revenger and an unwilling one. how revenge poisened his psyche et cetera et cetera (i know i am crapping on) there are shight loads of good quotes, intertextual allusions.

i did revenge tragedy last yr and i was inthe same school as the chick who topped 3U english in the state. our teachers all taught us Hamlet as an extra text and made us go find other ones.

but i guess you'll have to read hamlet and judge for yourself whether you thinkits worthy of usage as an extra text. personally i don't know how you could do revenge tragedy and NOT mention hamlet.