Film
Numerous adaptations have been made of revenge plays. Excluding films based on Hamlet, these include:
- Derek Jarman's Edward II
- Julie Taymor's Titus
- Alex Cox's Revengers Tragedy
- Marcus Thompson's Middleton's Changeling
- Peter Greenaway's The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover is an original work in the revenge play style.
- Todd Field's In the Bedroom
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“Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or despatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.”
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