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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
Author: Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman
Author: Peter WeissPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780826409638
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Peter Weiss (1916-1982) was virtually unknown in the mid-1960s when Peter Brook made Marat/Sade into a film. The weaving of time, space, plot, real-and-imagined characters, sexual liberation, and surrealist imagery made Marat/Sade a sensation. Little did audiences realize that this counterculture classic was written by a German Jew. At that time, Weiss was also at work on a play about Auschwitz: The Investigation. These two dramas are in this volume along with The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman. All are cogently introduced and edited by Robert Cohen.
A Study Guide for Peter Weiss's "Marat / Sade"
Author: Gale, Cengage LearningPublisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410352072
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
A Study Guide for Peter Weiss's "Marat / Sade," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
Eh?
Author: Henry LivingsPublisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822203513
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
THE STORY: Set in a factory boiler room, with the main prop the boiler itself, a great hiccuping, squealing, roaring, glug-glugging behemoth, the play details the plight of a hardy individualist caught in the over-protective web of mechanized, comp
The Shadow of the Coachman's Body
Author: Peter WeissPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811231623
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
A meticulously observed and macabre tale of hell on earth from the revolutionary German author of the famous play Marat/Sade Peter Weiss’s first prose work, The Shadow of the Coachman’s Body, was unanimously praised as an original and perfect work of art by critics when it appeared in 1960. Here, in poet Rosmarie Waldrop’s stunning translation, Weiss arranges a dark, vividly alive comedy of inert objects in a dismal boarding house—stones, buttons, hooks, needles, chairs, newspapers in an outhouse, clinking tin cups, celestial orbs, sewing machines, an overwound windup music box—which have oblique characters’ shadows as their supporting cast. Described by Weiss as a “micro-novel,” The Shadow of the Coachman’s Body can be obscene, trivial and brutal, and yet it is also peculiarly intimate and offers endless possibilities—like a telescope and kaleidoscope rolled into one.
Understanding Peter Weiss
Author: Robert CohenPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780872498983
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Examines the life & work of the playwright & novelist whose literary stature places him among Boll, Grass, & Frisch as one of the leaders of postwar German literature.
Peter Brook
Author: Michael KustowPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408852284
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Peter Brook is one of the most influential directors of our time, whose productions are a byword for imagination, energy and innovation. He was born into a Russian émigré family in London and, after a turbulent time at Oxford University, he veered between directing West End comedy, new work from abroad and opera at Covent Garden. By the 1960s he was moving towards greater experimentation, with controversial works like The Marat/Sade, films like Lord of the Flies, and landmark stagings of Shakespeare of which the most famous was the 'white box' production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. In 1970, at the height of his success, he moved to Paris and immediately set off with a group of actors to Persia, Africa, Mexico and the USA in an attempt to discover a universal language of theatre. Since then, Brook has continued pushing at the boundaries of theatre and film. In this first authoritative biography, arising out of an association and friendship with Brook of more than forty years, Michael Kustow tells the revealing story of a man whose life has been a never-ending quest for meaning.
Banned Plays
Author: Dawn B. SovaPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438129939
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
An alphabetical listing of plays that have been banned throughout history with a short synopsis and reason for banning as well as profiles of the playwrights and other resource material.
The Marquis de Sade: A Very Short Introduction
Author: John (Department of French Literature and Culture Phillips, London Metropolitan University)Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192804693
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Discussing the 'real' Marquis de Sade from his mythical and demonic reputation, John Phillips examines Sade's life and work his libertine novels, his championing of atheism, and his uniqueness in bringing the body and sex back into philosophy.
The Marat/Sade journals
Author: Barron StoreyPublisher:
ISBN: 9789081151337
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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