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Loading... Dantons Tod. (original 1835; edition 1986)by Georg Büchner
Work InformationDanton's Death by Georg Büchner (1835)
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Belongs to Publisher SeriesInsel-Bücherei (Nr. 88) Literaire reuzenpocket (234) Loomingu Raamatukogu 1973 (45-46) — 1 more Reclams Universal-Bibliothek (6060) Is contained inClassical German drama : Lessing : Nathan the wise + Goethe : Egmont + Schiller : Mary Stuart + Kleist : The Prince of Homburg + Büchner : Danton's Death by John Gassner Has the adaptationHas as a studyReclam Interpretationen : Georg Büchner : Dantons Tod, Lenz, Leonce und Lena, Woyzeck by Michael Voges Die Herrschaft des textes : zitattechnik als prachkritik in Georg Büchners drama "Danton's Tod" unter Berücksichtigung der "Letzten Tage der Menschheit" von Karl Kraus by Reiner Niehoff Has as a supplementHas as a commentary on the textHas as a student's study guideHas as a teacher's guide
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. No library descriptions found.
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