Revenge is sweet: the music, TV and theatre about getting your own back

From Shakespeare's dithering Dane to Desperate Housewives' steely-eyed Bree, our critics serve up the coldest revenge dishes In Desperate Housewives, when her gay son, Andrew, sleeps with her boyfriend, Bree Van de Kamp - everyone's favourite Republican-voting Stepford wife (played by Marcia Cross, above left) - abandons him on the side of the road. It might be classified more as punishment than revenge but it's petty as hell. In turn, Andrew goes on TV for a segment about homeless teenagers and...