I know this is a bit late, but I’ve written a fiddle for exactly this problem, on an HTML5 canvas:
http://jsfiddle.net/oscarpalacious/ZdQKg/
I hope somebody finds it useful!
I’m actually not calculating your x,y for the upper left corner of the container. It’s calculated as a result of the offset (code from the fiddle example):
this.w = Math.sin(this.angulo) * rotador.h + Math.cos(this.angulo) * rotador.w;
this.h = Math.sin(this.angulo) * rotador.w + Math.cos(this.angulo) * rotador.h;
// The offset on a canvas for the upper left corner (x, y) is
// given by the first two parameters for the rect() method:
contexto.rect(-(this.w/2), -(this.h/2), this.w, this.h);
Cheers