Danton's Death - Couverture souple

Buchner, Georg

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1408132834 ISBN 13 : 9781408132838

Editeur : Methuen Drama, 2010

Synopsis

This is your rhetoric translated. These wretches, these executioners, the guillotine are your speeches come to life. You have built your doctrines out of human heads. . . Why should an event that transforms the whole of humanity not advance through blood?

1794: the French Revolution reaches its climax. After a series of bloody purges the life-loving, volatile Danton is tormented by his part in the killing. His political rival, the driven, ascetic Robespierre, decides Danton's fate. A titanic struggle begins. Once friends who wanted to change the world, now one stands for compromise the other for ideological purity as the guillotine awaits.

A revolutionary himself, George Büchner was 21 when he wrote the play in 1835, while hiding from the police. With its hair-raising on-rush of scenes and vivid dramatisation of complex, visionary characters, Danton's Death has a claim to be the greatest political tragedy ever written. In his newly-revised translation, Howard Brenton captures Büchner's exhilarating energy as Danton struggles to avoid his inexorable fall.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Georg Büchner is widely acknowledged as the forefather of modern theatre. On his death at the age of 23, he left behind some outstanding dramatic works: his historical drama, Danton's Death, "the most remarkable first play in European culture"--Guardian, the innovatory tragedy, Woyzeck, and the absurdist comedy, Leonce and Lena.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Methuen Drama
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1408132834
• ISBN 13: 9781408132838
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 64
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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