Danton S Death

Author : Georg Büchner,Howard Brenton
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408135600

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Danton's Death by Georg Büchner,Howard Brenton Pdf

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 : George Buechner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:782000481

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Danton's Death by George Buechner Pdf

Author : Georg Büchner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0192836501

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Danton's Death ; Leonce and Lena ; Woyzeck by Georg Büchner Pdf

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 : Georg Büchner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X000674181

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Dantons Tod by Georg Büchner Pdf

The play follows the story of Georges Danton, a leader of the French Revolution, during the lull between the first and second terrors. Georges Danton created the office of the Revolutionary Tribunal as a strong arm for the Revolutionary Government. With this, to be accused of anything real or imagined was to be condemned to death without trial, proofs, evidence or witnesses. Within months he knew this power was a terrible mistake and fought to have it ended. Robespierre stopped him and used the Tribunal to have Danton and all opposition killed, consolidate his power and slaughter uncounted thousands of French men, women, and children. Ultimately he followed Danton to the guillotine. Witnesses describe Danton as dying bravely comforting other innocents executed with him. - Wikipedia.

Author : Georg Buchner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1282960326

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Danton's Death by Georg Buchner Pdf

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.

Author : Georg Büchner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : German drama
ISBN : OCLC:80290615

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Danton's Death by Georg Büchner Pdf

Author : Howard Brenton,Georg Büchner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:54274672

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Danton's Death [sound Recording] by Howard Brenton,Georg Büchner Pdf

Author : G. Buchner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1417502992

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Dantons Tod . Danton's Death by G. Buchner Pdf

Author : David Lawday
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802197023

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The Giant of the French Revolution by David Lawday Pdf

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

Author : David Lawday
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 144643432X

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Danton by David Lawday Pdf

Author : Georg Büchner,James Maxwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Drama
ISBN : UVA:X000080777

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Danton's Death by Georg Büchner,James Maxwell Pdf

Author : Hilary Mantel
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007354849

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A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel Pdf

From the double Man Booker prize-winning author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light comes an extraordinary work of historical imagination – this is Hilary Mantel’s epic novel of the French Revolution.

Author : Stanisława Przybyszewska
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0810108062

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The Danton Case ; Thermidor by Stanisława Przybyszewska Pdf

Stanislawa Przybyszewski is recognized as a major twentieth-century playwright on the basis of her trilogy about the French Revolution, of which The Danton Case and Thermidor are the principal parts. The Danton Case depicts the battle for power between two exceptional individuals: the corrupt sentimental idealist, Danton, and the incorruptible genius of the Revolution, Robespierre. Thermidor shows the final playing out of this drama, as Robespierre, left alone with the heroic absolutist Saint-Just, foresees the ruin of himself and his cause, and in his despair predicts that hatred, war, and capitalism will steal the Revolution and corrupt nineteenth-century man.

Author : Arthur Koestler
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781446546031

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Dialogue with Death by Arthur Koestler Pdf

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Julian Hilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0312323905

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Georg Büchner by Julian Hilton Pdf