LIT-136 Performing Revenge

Explores literature & film of 3 cultures fascinated by spectacles of revenge: Ancient Greece, Renaissance England, contemporary Hollywood. In these works, murder, mutilation, cannibalism, torture, and rape not only motivate revenge, but become its means. Is this only fitting or a gross paradox? What is the morality of vengeance-taking or its relationship to justice? What are the consequences for the individual and society? Texts include The Oresteia; Medea; The Spanish Tragedy; Titus Andronicus; The Duchess of Malfi; Arden of Faversham; The Crow; Sweeney Todd; Kill Bill.

Maximum Enrollment

16

(First Year Course, Writing Intensive.)

Credits

1

Notes

(Intermedia or Genre)