1.   He excelled in darkly brilliant revenge tragedies that veer between extreme violence and black comedy.

2.   His blood-drenched climax has an almost ritualistic inevitability, like the end of a Jacobean revenge tragedy or a Kurosawa film.

3.   I think right now Israelis and Palestinians are living out a revenge tragedy.

4.   Lies and greed are its twin motors, and it sweeps you along in its steady descent like a Jacobean revenge tragedy.