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In this revenge play, when the raped and mutilated Lavinia reveals the identity of her rapists, her uncle Marcus invokes the story of Lucrece to urge an oath to revenge the crime: " And swear with me — as, with the woeful fere / And father of that chaste dishonoured dame, / Lord Junius Brutus swore for Lucrece ' rape -- / That we will prosecute by good advice / Mortal revenge upon these traitorous Goths, / And see their blood, or die with this reproach " ( 4. 1. 89 – 94 ). The rapist Tarquin is also mentioned in Macbeth's soliloquy from Act 2 Scene 1 of Macbeth: " wither'd Murther.
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Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatizes the revenge Prince Hamlet exacts on his uncle Claudius for murdering King Hamlet, Claudius's brother and Prince Hamlet's father, and then succeeding to the throne and taking as his wife Gertrude, the old king's widow and Prince Hamlet's mother.
The play vividly portrays both true and feigned madness – from overwhelming grief to seething rage – and explores themes of treachery, revenge, incest, and moral corruption.
In his The Interpretation of Dreams ( 1900 ), Freud's analysis starts from the premise that " the play is built up on Hamlet's hesitations over fulfilling the task of revenge that is assigned to him ; but its text offers no reasons or motives for these hesitations ".
Reviews varied at the time and since but whatever the critique, the play represents Cocteau's state of mind and feelings towards his actors at the time: on the one hand, he wanted to spoil and please them ; on the other, he was fed up by their diva antics and was ready for revenge.
Osborne took literary revenge by creating a fictionalised and pseudonymous Richardson — a domineering and arrogant character who everyone hated — in his play Hotel in Amsterdam.
The play is set during the latter days of the Roman Empire and tells the fictional story of Titus, a general in the Roman army, who is engaged in a cycle of revenge with Tamora, Queen of the Goths.
The primary source for the rape and mutilation of Lavinia, as well as Titus ' subsequent revenge, is Ovid's Metamorphoses ( c. AD 8 ), which is featured in the play itself when Lavinia uses it to help explain to Titus and Marcus what happened to her during the attack.
Titus ' revenge may also have been influenced by Seneca's play Thyestes, written in the first century AD.
When he fails to be awarded the prestigious Critic's Circle Award for Best Actor, he sets out exacting bloody revenge on the critics who gave him poor reviews, with each act inspired by a death in a Shakespeare play.
He has traveled throughout Asia and other foreign lands, gathering a cult of female worshipers ( Bacchantes ), and at the start of the play has returned to take revenge on the house of Cadmus, disguised as a stranger.
Typically delivered by telephone, or other telecommunication means, the great majority of such threats are sociopathic behavior, intended to cause disruption, revenge or play practical jokes, rather than warning of real devices ..
As an updated Greek tragedy, the play features murder, adultery, incestuous love and revenge, and even a group of townspeople who function as a kind of Greek chorus.
Cleon had prosecuted Aristophanes for slandering the polis with an earlier play, The Babylonians ( 426 BC ), for which the young dramatist had promised revenge in The Acharnians ( 425 BC ), and it was in The Knights ( 424 BC ) that his revenge was exacted.
* 1748 ( Kan ' en 1 ): The first performance of the eleven-act puppet play Kanadehon Chushingura ( A copybook of the treasury of loyal retainers ), depicting the classic story of samurai revenge, the 1702 vendetta of the 47 rōnin.
The conditions of the match against Lasker are still debated among chess historians, but it seems Schlechter accepted to play under very unfavourable conditions, notably that he would need to finish two points ahead of Lasker to be declared the winner of the match, and he would need to win a revenge match to be declared World Champion.
The play is a gory revenge tragedy.
The theme of revenge is pastiched from Hamlet, but the play focuses on the atrocities of blood retribution instead of developing philosophical reflection.
The play, a visionary exploration of global ecology made through gender, storytelling, distorted language and modern urban life, follows an ancient and shapeshifting death portent ( The Skriker ) in her search for love, revenge and human understanding.
The play earned the 49ers a 24 – 21 victory and a bit of revenge on the Vikings, who had defeated them in the 1987 playoffs.
Curiously, the terms of the revenge stated that Sílvio Machado ( he scored five goals in the first match ) could not play.
Their revenge scheme will play an important role in the Gauntlet.
" 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.
In a deleted scene, Happy gets his revenge by daring Donald to " show him how to play golf ", which Donald reveals he's terrible at, humiliating him and Donald vows revenge.
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Disraeli took revenge in Endymion ( published in 1880 ), when he caricatured Thackeray as " St. Barbe ".
It is said that, in 1038, they were dispersed in winter quarters in the Thracesian theme when one of their number attempted to violate a countrywoman, but in the struggle she seized his sword and killed him ; instead of taking revenge, however, his comrades applauded her conduct, compensated her with all his possessions, and exposed his body without burial as if he had committed suicide.
Mipps then joined Syn in his quest for revenge, pursuing Tappitt and Imogene throughout the thirteen American colonies ( supposedly preaching the gospel to the Indians ) and around the world ( as part of a whaling voyage ) afterwards, and was with him in the Caribbean when Dr. Syn turned again to piracy, assuming the name of Captain Clegg ( taking the name " Clegg " from a certain vicious biting fly he had encountered in America ), hijacking his enemy Tappitt's own ship and crew and sailing off with them ( renaming the ship the Imogene ) to become the most infamous pirate of the day.
Hephaestus gained revenge against Hera for rejecting him by making her a magical throne which, when she sat on, did not allow her to leave.
In November 1938, Goebbels got the chance to take decisive action against the Jews for which he had been waiting when a Jewish youth, Herschel Grynszpan, shot a German diplomat in Paris, Ernst vom Rath, in revenge for the deportation of his family to Poland and the persecution of German Jews generally.
This poem is a dissuasion from excessive rage and the desire for revenge when one is defrauded.
In working class blue collar bars, fights break out due to reasons like bad singing, refusing to give up the mike and revenge for perceived insults when jeered.
A 1960 story by Jerry Siegel expanded upon Luthor's origin and motivations, revealing him to be a childhood friend of Superman's who lost his hair when a fire destroyed his laboratory ; Luthor vowed revenge.
During the Blackest Night event, when word got out that apparently everyone around the world who have died are rising as undead Black Lanterns, Luthor isolates himself in his safehouse in fear that all the people he had murdered over the years would also reanimate and seek revenge on him.
There is some reconciliation between them when Luthor discovers he was an unwitting party to a conspiracy against Lena, which was masterminded by his cellmate " Sam ", who wanted revenge against Colby.
The Jets exacted revenge on their opponent when they eliminated the Colts in a narrow 17 – 16 victory that saw Nick Folk kick the game-winning field goal for New York as time expired.
Unlike in Othello, in Cinthio, Iago lusts after Desdemona and is spurred to revenge when she rejects him.
During negotiations, Philip secretly continued his operations against Verneuil, and when Richard discovered it, he left, swearing revenge.
He at first plans to kill the judge, but when his prey escapes, he swears revenge on the whole world and begins to slash the throats of his customers.
* " Indeed men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those general laws to which all can look for salvation in adversity, instead of allowing them to subsist against the day of danger when their aid may be required " ( Strassler 201 / 3. 84. 3 ).
Bhutto vowed to take a revenge against Ayub Khan after gathering and uniting the scattered democratic socialist and Marxist mass into one single platform when he founded the Pakistan Peoples Party in 1967.
McCauley and Eady are en route to the airport when Nate calls with Waingro's location, and the temptation proves to be too much for the normally disciplined McCauley, who risks his assured freedom by detouring to exact his revenge.
Edward finally got his revenge on Winchelsey in 1305, when Clement V was elected pope.
Seeking revenge on Athens and Eretria, Darius assembled another army of 20, 000 men under his Admiral, Datis who met success when he captured Eretria and advanced to Marathon.
This Second Restoration saw the beginning of the Second White Terror, largely in the south, when supporters of the monarchy sought revenge against those who had supported Napoleon's return, killing 200 – 300 and forcing thousands to flee.
In 523 Clotilde finally took revenge for the murder of her father, when she incited her sons against her cousin King Sigismund of Burgundy, the son of Gundobad, and provoked the Burgundian War, which led to Sigismund's deposition and imprisonment, and his assassination the following year.
There, Gunray finally gets his chance at revenge when Padmé and the teenaged Anakin Skywalker ( Hayden Christensen ) are captured by the Geonosians while trying to rescue the captive Obi-Wan Kenobi.
While it was raging, one of his companions reached out to Justinian saying that if he promised God that he would be magnanimous, and not seek revenge on his enemies when he was returned to the throne, they would all be spared.
* The first live-action Scooby-Doo theatrical film — where Scrappy played a decidedly negative and darker role as the main antagonist, wanting revenge on Mystery Inc., for abandoning him years ago ( he was kicked out for continuously urinating on Daphne, being obnoxious, and the final straw was when he tried to vote himself as the leader of Mystery Inc .).
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