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nounrevenge drama (plural revenge dramas)
plural revenge dramas
- Synonym of revenge tragedy
On one level, Irréversible is a companion piece to "bad girl" road movie Baise-Moi, which also featured a brutal rape sequence and the kind of stomach-churning violence that makes Jacobean Revenge drama seem understated.
2002 August 2, Geoffrey Macnab, “'The rape had to be disgusting to be useful'”, in The Guardian, →ISSNSynonyms: revenge tragedy
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nounSynonym of revenge tragedy
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