Author: Georg Buchner
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781532994883
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
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Dantons Tod
Author: Georg Buchner
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781532994883
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to [email protected] This book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard copyright issues please contact us immediately via [email protected]
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781532994883
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to [email protected] This book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard copyright issues please contact us immediately via [email protected]
Danton's Death
Author: Georg Büchner
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408135590
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
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.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408135590
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
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.
The Giant of the French Revolution
Author: David Lawday
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802197027
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
A biography of Georges-Jacques Danton, a leading French revolutionary—from his rural upbringing to his death five years after the storming of the Bastille. One of the Western world’s most epic uprisings, the French Revolution ended a monarchy that had ruled for almost a thousand years. Georges-Jacques Danton was the driving force behind it. Now David Lawday, author of Napoleon’s Master, reveals the larger-than-life figure who joined the fray at the storming of the Bastille in 1789 and was dead five years later. To hear Danton speak, his booming voice a roll of thunder, excited bourgeois reformers and the street alike; his impassioned speeches, often hours long, drove the sans-culottes to action and kept the Revolution alive. But as the newly appointed Minister of Justice, Danton struggled to steer the increasingly divided Revolutionary government. Working tirelessly to halt the bloodshed of Robespierre’s terror, he ultimately became another of its victims. True to form, Danton did not go easily to the guillotine; at his trial, he defended himself with such vehemence that the tribunal convicted him before he could rally the crowd in his favor. In vivid, almost novelistic prose, Lawday leads us from Danton’s humble roots to the streets of revolutionary Paris, where this political legend acted on the stage of the revolution that altered Western civilization. “A gripping story, beautifully told . . . Danton was a headstrong firebrand, a swashbuckling political showman with a prodigious memory, whose spectacular oratory held audiences in thrall.” —The Economist
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802197027
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
A biography of Georges-Jacques Danton, a leading French revolutionary—from his rural upbringing to his death five years after the storming of the Bastille. One of the Western world’s most epic uprisings, the French Revolution ended a monarchy that had ruled for almost a thousand years. Georges-Jacques Danton was the driving force behind it. Now David Lawday, author of Napoleon’s Master, reveals the larger-than-life figure who joined the fray at the storming of the Bastille in 1789 and was dead five years later. To hear Danton speak, his booming voice a roll of thunder, excited bourgeois reformers and the street alike; his impassioned speeches, often hours long, drove the sans-culottes to action and kept the Revolution alive. But as the newly appointed Minister of Justice, Danton struggled to steer the increasingly divided Revolutionary government. Working tirelessly to halt the bloodshed of Robespierre’s terror, he ultimately became another of its victims. True to form, Danton did not go easily to the guillotine; at his trial, he defended himself with such vehemence that the tribunal convicted him before he could rally the crowd in his favor. In vivid, almost novelistic prose, Lawday leads us from Danton’s humble roots to the streets of revolutionary Paris, where this political legend acted on the stage of the revolution that altered Western civilization. “A gripping story, beautifully told . . . Danton was a headstrong firebrand, a swashbuckling political showman with a prodigious memory, whose spectacular oratory held audiences in thrall.” —The Economist
Danton's Death ; Leonce and Lena ; Woyzeck
Author: Georg Büchner
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192836502
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192836502
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
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.
Danton's Death
Author: Georg Büchner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
An Essay on the Tragic
Author: Peter Szondi
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804743952
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
This is a succinct and elegant argument for the specificity of a philosophy of tragedy, as opposed to a poetics of tragedy espoused by Aristotle.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804743952
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
This is a succinct and elegant argument for the specificity of a philosophy of tragedy, as opposed to a poetics of tragedy espoused by Aristotle.
Georg Büchner's Dantons Tod
Author: Dorothy James
Publisher: MHRA
ISBN: 9780900547775
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Publisher: MHRA
ISBN: 9780900547775
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
A Letter from Danton to Marie Antoinette
Author: Georges Jacques Danton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
The Production Notebooks
Author: Mark Bly
Publisher: Theatre Communications Grou
ISBN: 9781559361101
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The Production Notebooks explores four theatre pieces from the writing of the script through to the staging of the show, providing a unique inside view of the theatrical production process
Publisher: Theatre Communications Grou
ISBN: 9781559361101
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The Production Notebooks explores four theatre pieces from the writing of the script through to the staging of the show, providing a unique inside view of the theatrical production process
Tragedy Walks the Streets
Author: Matthew S. Buckley
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801884349
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
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Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801884349
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
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