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...Joel Schechter Copyright © THEATER 1977 1977 Danton's Death in East Berlin Joel Schechter Bertolt Brecht once observed that political and cultural repression in the morous poem by Brecht advising the Germany's "literary history does...

... the melodramatic Catiline and lyrical, to be sure, but divorced from reality except in its most poetic trans- From Danton's Death by Georg Buchner, positions. The works of a wunderkind translated by Henry J. Schmidt, lntroduc- who came to art through art...

.... Friedrich). Das Welttheater, zum Jahr 1840 . Frankfurt am Main: Verlags-Magazin für Literatur und Kunst, 1834–1840 . Thiers , M. A. Histoire de la Révolution Française . Paris: Fume, Jouvet & cie, 1884 . Buchner's Use of Sources in DANTON'S DEATH by Richard Beacham...

...” between him and Welles. The excerpt begins at this point. ) So once again we changed our program, which now read DantonS Death fol- lowed by Too Much Johnson, with Five Kings [a two-evening compilation of ShakespeareS histories] still in third place. And with this change our economic...

...Jonathan Marks Copyright © by yale/theater 1972 1972 Jonathan Miller's DANTON'S DEATH by Jonathan Marks Georg Buchner revolutionized the drama in his spare time. His career was medi- cine, as was his father's, but he chose it not merely out of filial devotion; he was passionately...

... (inaugurated September, 1793), they argued for opposite models of human ly threatened to set Tz'ny A Nee, to which ending with Danton's execution (April, perfection, the real and the opera Danton Albee always responded that he thought 1794), and Robespierre's (july, 1794). A and Robespierre both fall...

... published in 1929 in her own on the subject. Her letters, just piece, one had to read it, including notes the Polish journal Wiadomosci published in English with a and introduction. The Danton Case Literackie titled “Self-interview” and biographical sketch as A Life...

...Daniel Stern Copyright © Theater 1993 1993 Productions Danton’s Death Blue Man: Tubes The Destiny of Me Wilson and Buchner...

...Judith Drucker Copyright © by yale/theater 1972 1972 A Buchner Bibliography Compiled by Judith Drucker Baxandall, Lee. "Georg Buchner's Danton's Death," Tulane Drama Review, vi, iii, 136-149. Benn, M. 6...

... best highlights this tension, where the But, even though The Life of Galileo turned the Shakespeare ending on its old Bade Unionist hurls a Molotov cock- and Danton’s Death are extremely ac- head, as Angelo-Powell seizes power. tail into the auditorium. At this cross- curate, almost...

...." He would establish these things, that is to say, as the mode of other men's perception of them; his own purpose was simply to write as he knew how. In this light Danton's Death, which is beyond question the most amazing first play ever written, is not a historical epic but a drama about...

...- on in Danton's Death, the Mar- chioness of Mantua in Pietro Aretino). By sleeping with the women modelled on Minna, three...

.... On the other characters; they are frozen into passive hand, Biichner has a great many fol- immobility, enmeshed in a web of lowers among German artists, both internal and external forces. Danton, literary and non-literary. To a certain in that four-act death scene, Danton's type of German...

... detours are part of the research. For example, move completely away from giving the audi- with Danton’s Death, I picked up a magazine ence at least some trace of a narrative. about the club scene, and I ended up setting...

... isolation and the weakness of the hu- his world just as Danton and Woyzeck man By establishing himself in are in theirs, and although he is de- this nihilistic position as a critic of signed to be a buffoon, the ridiculous human nature and society, Buchner comedy of his life...

... the genocide in Rwanda. My method is perhaps comparable to the one employed by Büchner in Danton s 29 rau Death (1835), a play that combines historically accurate speeches and entirely fictional elements. Büchner starts with historical figures but lets them act in imaginary scenes, and vice versa. Or he...

...: Shakespeare Cycle,” no. 3, 61-70. Danton’s Death],no. 1, 114-116. , “Borderlines: An Interview with Robert Wellman, Mac, “A Chrestomathy of Twenty-two Lepage and Le Theatre Repere,” no. 3,71-79. Answers to Twenty-two Wholly Unaskable ,“Hand Eye Mind Soul: Theiitre du...

..., Caesar’s death at the hands of conspirators in Georg Büchner’s Danton as he is led to the guillotine on Robespierre’s orders. I have tried to show how, contrary to what the naive defenders of chronology believe, the great playwrights converse with one another or rather mutually infect one another...

... Ulysses. Later he created two famous adapta- Theater in Warsaw with a virtually unknown tions: The Emperor’s Men, after Kapuscinski’s and rarely produced Polish play. This meeting documentary on the reign of Haile Selassie, led to a famous production of The Danton Case...

..." Schechter, Joel, "From the Editors" (Editorial with Colette Brooks), Vol. 9, no. 1, (Essay), Vol. 9, no. 3, Summer 1978, p. 7 Fall 1977, p. 3 Devine, Lawrence, "Theater in Detroit: Plays in the Attic" (Essay) Vol. 9, no. 2, "Danton's Death in East Berlin" (Review...