Danton's Death; Leonce and Lena; Woyzeck
Georg Büchner, Victor Price
Buchner's special quality, and that which makes him seem more contemporary than almost anything written today, is his total, uncompromising honesty of emotion and intellect." "The German writer Georg Buchner, who died in 1837 aged 23, left only three works for the theatre. Danton's Death, his great fresco of the French Revolution, was written in five weeks when Buchner was under threat of arrest for his own revolutionary activities. His sad comedy, Leonce and Lena, was composed in haste for a publisher's competition for which it was entered too late. The extraordinary proletarian tragedy Woyzeck was left unfinished at Buchner's death. Virtually unknown until the end of the nineteenth century, the plays have found an important place in the modern international repertory.
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Année:
1998
Editeur::
Oxford University Press, USA
Langue:
english
Pages:
136
ISBN 10:
0192836501
ISBN 13:
9780192836502
Collection:
Oxford world's classics
Fichier:
EPUB, 2.18 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1998