* A 1594 performance record of Hamlet appears in Philip Henslowe's diary and in 1596 Thomas Lodge wrote of " the ghost which cried so miserably at the theatre, like an oyster-wife, Hamlet, revenge!

According to historian Shabtai Teveth, who wrote one of the more detailed accounts, the assignment was " To undermine Western confidence in the existing regime by generating public insecurity and actions to bring about arrests, demonstrations, and acts of revenge, while totally concealing the Israeli factor.

They supposedly committed suicide out of shame when Hipponax wrote caustic satirical poetry about them for revenge.

In revenge, Phaedra wrote Theseus a letter that claimed Hippolytus raped her.

Her captivity narrative and subsequent escape and revenge upon her captors caught the attention of Cotton Mather, who wrote about her, and she also demanded from the colonial leaders the reward per Indian scalp.

During the 17th century, Robert Burton wrote in his work The Anatomy of Melancholy, " Out of these two concupiscible and irascible powers arise those mixed affections and passions of anger, which is a desire of revenge ; hatred, which is inveterate anger ; zeal, which is offended with him who hurts that he loves ; and ἐπιχαιρεκακία, a compound affection of joy and hate, when we rejoice at other men's mischief, and are grieved at their prosperity ; pride, self-love, emulation, envy, shame, & c., of which elsewhere.

" Akerman wrote that violence in the South against blacks was motivated by revenge after being defeated by the North, slaves having been taken away, and were dissenfranchised politically.

Penny Rimbaud performing with Last Amendment at The Vortex, Hackney, 30 November 2006 He also wrote Rocky Eyed, an extended poem attacking then prime minister Margaret Thatcher and her government following the 1982 Falklands War which was recorded as the Crass album Yes Sir, I Will, The Death of Imagination ( a ' musical drama in 4 parts '), The Diamond Signature ( published by AK Press ) and Oh America, a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks and America's subsequent War on Terror which includes the line Give us justice which is not the searing spite of revenge, peace which is not the product of war nor dependent upon it.

In 1663 during a trip to the Calvinist academy at the University of Geneva, Sidney wrote in the visitor's book: " SIT SANGUINIS ULTOR JUSTORUM " (" Let there be revenge for the blood of the just ").

A 1594 performance record of Hamlet appears in Philip Henslowe's diary and in 1596 Thomas Lodge wrote of " the ghost which cried so miserably at the theatre, like an oyster-wife, Hamlet, revenge!

Though many ancient sources wrote that Fulvia was happy to take revenge against Cicero for Antony's and Clodius ' sake, Cassius Dio is the only ancient source that describes the joy with which she pierced the tongue of the dead Cicero with her golden hairpins, as a final revenge against Cicero's power of speech.

In revenge he joined the émigré group at Coblenz, wrote in their favour, and spent nearly all the fortune brought him by his wife, a wealthy widow.

" When he read the play, her brother Thurn accused her of wanting " revenge for something long dead and to be forgotten ," but Barnes, in the margin of his letter, described her motive instead as " justice ," and next to the word dead he wrote, " not dead.

When she was 24, she wrote, " I will not begin at this late day by doing what my soul abhors ; sugaring men, weak deceitful creatures, with flattery to retain them as escorts or to gratify a revenge.

Critic Christopher Null wrote of the film, " One of the ' 70s juiciest entries into the horror genre, The Abominable Dr. Phibes is Vincent Price at his campy best, a former doctor and concert organist ( go figure that one out yourself ) who is exacting revenge on the nine doctors he blames for botching his wife's surgery, which ended with her death.

" In effect, she wrote, interpretation had become " the intellect's revenge upon art.

Reviewer Ifdary Bailey wrote that this " everyday story of family life in a revenge tragedy, of relations and revelations, hidden identities and loss of identity, incest and inheritance, all brooded over by the Father Who Will Not Die, carries itself forward swiftly and surely to its conclusion with strength and control.

Clark did not claim to have been one of the executioners, but he wrote about the killings without apology, believing them to be justifiable revenge for murdered Kentucky settlers and a means to intimidate Indians into stopping their raids.

When the NAACP complained about these lynchings, Catts wrote denouncing the organization and blacks generally, declaring that " Your Race is always harping on the disgrace it brings to the state by a concourse of white people taking revenge for the dishonoring of a white woman, when if you would.

When Rob Zombie wrote House of 1000 Corpses, he had a " vague idea for a story " about the brother of the sheriff that the Firefly clan killed coming back for revenge.

Jordanes wrote in 551 that the Gothic king Ermanaric was upset with the attack of a subordinate king and had his wife Sunilda ( i. e. Svanhild ) torn to pieces by horses, and as revenge Ermanaric was pierced with spears by her brothers Ammius ( Hamdir ) and Sarus ( Sörli ) and died from the wounds.

Incidents included the killing of three members of a pop band, the Miami Showband, by a gang including members of the UVF who were also members of the local army regiment, the UDR, and in uniform at the time, and the killing by the Provisionals of eighteen members of the Parachute Regiment in the Warrenpoint Ambush-seen by some as revenge for Bloody Sunday.

Section 51 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 includes the offences of intimidating a witness and taking revenge on a witness.

Public Enemy quickly got revenge on Badd Company as they defeated the duo in a " South Philly hood " match the very next day at November to Remember.

Campbell made a critically acclaimed dramatic guest role as a grief-stricken detective seeking revenge for his father's murder in a two-part episode of the fourth season of Homicide: Life on the Street.

The Life and Loves of a She-Devil is a 1983 novel by British feminist author Fay Weldon about a highly unattractive woman who goes to great lengths to take revenge on her husband and his attractive lover.

Another major theme of the series is the " sins of the father ": Spring ’ s first assignment as a detective was to arrest his father for industrial espionage, the villain in " Intelligent Listening for Beginners " is motivated by his inability to match his father ’ s reputation, Spring ’ s deputy, David Theroux, watched his father die of radiation poisoning, the kidnapper in " A Double Life " is seeking revenge for his father ’ s murder and Star Cop Anna Shoun betrays the multinational company which employs her ( and with whom she has a paternal relationship ) when she discovers their unethical behaviour.

He played a paroled convict out for revenge in a season three episode of Homicide: Life on the Street.

Spurling claimed that to get revenge, Marmaduke Wetherell committed the hoax, with the help of Chris Spurling ( a sculpture specialist ), his son Ian Marmaduke, who bought the material for the fake, and Maurice Chambers ( an insurance agent ), who asked surgeon Robert Kenneth Wilson to offer the pictures to the Daily Mail.

Elizabeth countered such notions, saying that Lord Robert " was of a very good disposition and nature, not given by any means to seek revenge of former matters past ".

One such act of revenge involves the critic Meredith Merridew ( played by Robert Morley ).

When Max unexpectedly finds out that he is moving to Chicago after his father, Donald " Don " Keeble ( Robert Carradine ), gets a promotion, Max is initially upset at having to move, but later plots to exact revenge against Jindrake, Troy, Dobbs, and the Evil Ice Cream Man, believing that when they try to retaliate, Max will be gone.

Robert Ingersoll stated, the myth of hell represents " all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable.

J. Lee Thompson's Cape Fear ( 1962 ) with Robert Mitchum had a menacing ex-con seeking revenge at an attorney ( Gregory Peck ) and his family, director Stanley Donen's stylish, romantic thriller Charade ( 1963 ), which had numerous plot twists, Identity changes, and a search for hidden loot that stars the pair of Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn on location in Paris.

Using the pretext of revenge for the murder of Robert Kerr, a Warden of the Scottish East March who had been killed by John " The Bastard " Heron in 1508, James invaded England with an army of about 30, 000 men in 1513.

Soon after assuming the dukedom, however, possibly in revenge for supporting his brother against him, Robert I assembled an army against his uncle, Robert, Archbishop of Rouen and count of Évreux.

A graduate student, Bellingham ( played by Steve Buscemi ), reanimates a mummy and uses it to take revenge on a pair of crooked college students, Susan ( played by Julianne Moore ), and Lee ( played by Robert Sedgwick ) who conspired to cheat Bellingham out of a scholarship.

Joseph Donnelly ( Cruise ), a hot-headed young man whose home was burned after his father's violent death, decides to take revenge on the " high-handed " Protestant landlord, Daniel Christie ( Robert Prosky ).

However, when the news was brought that Gregory's Norman ally, Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia and Calabria, was hastening to his aid, Henry fled Rome with Guibert and, in revenge for Matilda's staunch support for Gregory and the reform party, ravaged her possessions in Tuscany.

Robert W. Kurz and Charles K. Bartles provide another view in regard to their motives and argued that these women are much more motivated by revenge, despair, and their drive for an independent state than by religious fundamentalism or individual honor.

At a fundraiser on the 50th anniversary of his parents ' execution, Robert described the fund, which he runs, as his " constructive revenge.

With the Sakazaki family reunited, they, along with Robert, are focused on exacting their revenge on Geese and providing justice to all others who were wronged by him.

Before they can marry, however, Robert falls victim to Murad's revenge and is shipped to North Africa.

Confederate general Robert E. Lee called the measure " an abortive expression of the malice and revenge " of the North.

** In The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, Robert A. Heinlein presents a human society on the Moon as an ideal anarchy, populated by political exiles and held together by the need for cooperation to ensure mutual survival, coupled with the ease for revenge in the event of harm.

After a local man finally gets revenge on Robert by throwing him over a church wall, Robert realises that he hates people.

Plus, if you've ever read a Robert Ludlum novel ( particularly The Rhinemann Exchange ), you'll be sorely disappointed in the intelligence ( and one dimensional nature ) of Powell's character, and the route he takes to enact his revenge.

Nobody knows that Patrick has allied with Robert's bitter ex-wife, Véronique, to take revenge on Robert ; he is hiding from the police in order to make them think Robert killed him.