Extension 1

HSC English Extension 1

Elective 1: Genre - Revenge Tragedy

Suggested related material

Novel

Film

Kill Bill, dir. Quentin Tarantino

Gladiator, dir. Ridley Scott

Reservoir Dogs, dir. Quentin Tarantino

Sweeney Todd, dir. Tim Burton

The Bank, dir. Robert connelly

Drama

Online resources

The Genre

From HSC Online:

http://hsc.csu.edu.au/english/extension1/genre/revenge_tragedy/tragedy_intro/intro.html

From an online literary encyclopaedia:

http://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=951

A complete book provided by Google Book Search:

Revenge Tragedy: Aeschylus to Armageddon by John Kerrigan

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=wRmxutD5kmoC&dq=revenge+tragedy&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=5q_ts-71x3&sig=J1WophntCGE-Tb9u5Sf_16j7S1I

Rennaisance Revivals:City Comedy and Revenge Tragedy by Wendy Griswold

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=wRmxutD5kmoC&dq=revenge+tragedy&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=5q_ts-71x3&sig=J1WophntCGE-Tb9u5Sf_16j7S1I

A Feminist Perspective on Renaissance Drama by Alison Findlay

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=wRmxutD5kmoC&dq=revenge+tragedy&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=5q_ts-71x3&sig=J1WophntCGE-Tb9u5Sf_16j7S1I

A Companion to Tragedy by Rebecca W Bushnell

http://books.google.com/books?id=B1Fz7PnMavAC&pg=PA328&lpg=PA328&dq=revenge+tragedy&source

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The Texts

Euripedes, Medea

HSC online:

http://hsc.csu.edu.au/english/extension1/genre/revenge_tragedy/tragedy_intro/intro.html

Information of Euripedes:

http://european-literature.suite101.com/article.cfm/shakespeares_revenge_tragedy

A site dedicated to Euripides: http://www.gpc.edu/~shale/humanities/literature/world_literature/euripides.html

A comprehensive bibliography on Euripides:

http://pirate.shu.edu/~cottereu/euripides_bibliography.htm
http://pirate.shu.edu/~cottereu/euripides.htm

From a literary encyclopedia including links:

http://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=951

The Wikipedia entry provides an introduction:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medea_(play)

This is an essay on Ridley Scott's Gladiator as Revenge Tragedy

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~robert2600/azimute/film/elysium.html

note: consider Kill Bill

This examines Hamlet as Revenge Tragedy:

http://cla.calpoly.edu/~dschwart/engl339/revenge.html

See also: http://european-literature.suite101.com/article.cfm/shakespeares_revenge_tragedy

These are teaching notes:

http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=396

You'll find questions to support reading the play, Medea: http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/netshots/medea.htm

This examines Medea as a feminist:

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=662969

Tourneur, The Revenger's Tragedy

The Wikipedia entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_Tourneur

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Revenger's_Tragedy

Corneille, The Cid

Zinnemann, dir., High Noon

Wikipedia on Fred Zinnemann

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Zinnemann

On Zinnemann as a director

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/04/zinnemann.html

An essay on High Noon

http://www.filmsite.org/high.html

From Google Book Search

The Films of Fred Zinnemann: Critical Perspectives by Arthur Nolletti

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/04/zinnemann.html

Fred Zinnemann: Films of Character and Conscience by Neil Sinyard

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2ybsUUgPkhMC&dq=%22high+noon%22+fred+zinnemann&pg=PP1&ots=6MZAC1qSGM&source=citation&sig=vfhO_eJxL-qriSLAGkh_y9-r0u4&hl=en&prev=http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=%22High+Noon%22+Fred+Zinnemann&btnG=Google+Search&sa=X&oi=print&ct=result&cd=2&cad=bottom-3results

Wikipedia on High Noon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Noon

An online essay on the film

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Noon

Another essay which also included the lyrics to the theme song

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/03/28/ballad_of_high_noon.html

This site looks at films and the McCarthy era. It references a range of films and provides additional links for High Noon.

http://www.jacknilan.com/senatorjoe/highnoon.html

This essay has a political perspective

http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/47/highnoon.htm

Background to making the film

http://www.bighousefilm.com/high_noon.htm