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Danton's Death (Paperback)
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Danton's Death (Paperback)
Series: Modern Plays
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Loot Price R389
Discovery Miles 3 890
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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 Buchner 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 Buchner's exhilarating energy as Danton
struggles to avoid his inexorable fall.
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