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 lifeloving, volatile Danton is tormented by his part in the killing. His political rival, the driven, ascetic Robespierre, decides Dantons 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 hairraising onrush of scenes and vivid dramatisation of complex, visionary characters, Dantons Death has a claim to be the greatest political tragedy ever written. In his newlyrevised translation, Howard Brenton captures Buchners exhilarating energy as Danton struggles to avoid his inexorable fall.

Binding: Paperback;66 pages; Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Classification: DD; Weight: 182 g; Dimensions: 199 x 130 x 4

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