Author: Georg Buchner
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0140445862
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 337
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Collected in this volume are dramas and psychological fiction by the nineteenth-century iconoclast. Also included are selections from Buchner's letters and philosophical writings.
Author: Georg Büchner
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0809032309
Category : Arranged marriage
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Leonce and Lena: There are two imaginary countries: the Kingdom of Popo and the Kingdom of Pipi. Prince Leonce of the Kingdom of Popo and Princess Lena of the Kingdom of Pipi have had their political marriage arranged.
Author: Georg Buchner
Publisher: Methuen Drama
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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The complete collection of Büchner's plays in one volume Büchner was acknowledged by figures as divergent as Antonin Artaud and Bertolt Brecht to be 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), translated here by Howard Brenton and Jane Fry; the innovatory tragedy, Woyzeck, translated by John Mackendrick; and the absurdist comedy, Leonce and Lena, translated by Anthony Meech. He also left a powerful short story, Lenz, an important account of his research into cranial nerves, and his revolutionary pamphlet, The Hessian Courier. All these are collected in this one volume and supplemented with a selection of his remarkable letters.
Author: Georg Büchner
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408135604
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 65
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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.
Author: Howard Colyer
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326482955
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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A classic of the German stage adapted as a monologue. Though written in 1837 Woyzeck is widely regarded as the first Expressionist play due to its splintered and fragmentary nature. Here it is presented in a new form.
Author: Georg Büchner
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393933512
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Few writers have transformed literature and theatre so dramatically as Georg Bèuchner. Each text is accompanied by explanatory annotations. The introduction examines the complexities of Bèuchner's short life.
Author: Georg Büchner
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192836502
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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This collection of Büchner's three theatrical works includes Danton's Death, his great play about the French Revolution, Leonce and Lena, his "black" romantic comedy and Woyzeck, the unfinished work on which Alban Berg based his famous opera. All three works remained virtually unknown for half a century but today have found an important place in the modern repertory.
Author: Walter Hinderer
Publisher: Continuum
ISBN: 9780826403018
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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The works of Georg Buchner consists of only a few hundred pages written by a man who died in 1837 at the age of twenty-three, yet its influence on 20th-century literature can hardly be exaggerated. Particularly his drama, a century before Brecht, is considered an important precursor of the major trends in drama today. This edition includes the plays Danton's Death, Leonce and Lena, a reconstruction and synopsis of Woyzeck, the novella Lenz, the political essay The Hessian Messenger, and all the surviving letters.
Author: Georg Buchner
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141935499
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 337
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Collected in this volume are powerful dramas and psychological fiction by the nineteenth-century iconoclast now recognized as a major figure of world literature. Also included are selections from Büchner's letters and philosophical writings.
Author: David G. Richards
Publisher: Camden House
ISBN: 9781571132208
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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This is the first extensive survey and analysis of the criticism of Woyzeck from the nineteenth century to the present."--BOOK JACKET.
