Exploring Genre: Revenge Tragedy

Each title in this series of teacher resource books, intended for use with students in middle and senior secondary years, starts with a detailed definition of the genre, followed by an examination of a wide range of texts with:

• background information
• information about text and context
• ideas on genre conventions, representation of themes, characters, style
• suggestions and strategies for dealing with the texts
• a wide range of student activities to suit different year levels, with emphasis on what is being said and how it is being said, with questions
• response tasks

Exploring Genre: Revenge Tragedy is an invaluable resource with in depth analysis and student exercises to help students analyse, question, interpret and articulate their understanding of the text.

Contents

Genre

• Defining Tragedy
• Evolution of the Genre
• Typical Conventions and Motifs

Classic Tragedy

• Electra
• Medea

Renaissance "Blood Tragedy"

• The Spanish Tragedy
• Hamlet
• The Revenger's Tragedy

Gothic Vengeance

• Frankenstein
• Wuthering Heights
• Poe-The Cask of Amontillado
• Browning – Soliloquy at a Spanish Cloister
• The Vendetta-Guy de Maupassant
• The Poison Tree – William Blake

Contemporary Revenge Tragedy

• The Tragedy of the Common Man
• High Noon
• The Crucible
• Daddy
• Cell Block Tango – Chicago
• Black Medea

Cinematic Vengeance

• Memento
• Road to Perdition
• Revengers Tragedy

Responding and Composing

• Responding to Revenge Tragedy
• Sample Student Response