Editing Revenge (section)

== In art ==
[[File:Konishi Hirosada - Igagoe buyuden - Walters 95712.jpg|thumb|240px|''[[Igagoe vendetta|Igagoe buyuden]]''. This is an episode from a popular story of revenge&nbsp;– how the son of a murdered [[samurai]] tracked the killer over all Japan.]]
Revenge is a popular subject across many forms of art. Some examples include the painting ''Herodias' Revenge'' by [[Juan de Flandes]] and the operas ''[[Don Giovanni]]'' and ''[[The Marriage of Figaro]]'', both by [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]].  In Japanese art, revenge is a theme in various woodblock prints depicting the [[forty-seven rōnin]] by many well-known and influential artists, including [[Utagawa Kuniyoshi]]. The Chinese playwright Ji Junxiang used revenge as the central theme in his theatrical work ''[[The Orphan of Zhao]]'';<ref>{{cite journal | last=Liu | first=Wu-Chi | title=The Original Orphan of China | journal=Comparative Literature | year=1953 | volume=5 | issue=3 | pages=193–212 | jstor=1768912 | doi=10.2307/1768912 }}</ref> it depicts more specifically familial revenge, which is placed in the context of [[Confucianism|Confucian morality]] and social hierarchical structure.<ref>{{cite book | last=Shi  |first=Fei | title=Text & presentation, 2008 | year=2009 | publisher=McFarland | location=Jefferson | isbn=9780786443666 | editor=Constantinidis, Stratos E. | chapter=Tragic Ways of Killing a Child: Staging Violence and Revenge in Classical Greek and Chinese Drama | page=175}}</ref>