Danton's Death

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Danton's Death
Written by	Georg Büchner
Characters	Georges Danton Camille Desmoulins Lucile Duplessis Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles Maximilien Robespierre Louis de Saint-Just Thomas Paine Fabre d'Églantine Louis-Sébastien Mercier Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac
Date of premiere	1835; premiered 1902
Original language	German
Setting	French Revolution, Reign of Terror
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Danton's Death (Dantons Tod) was the first play written by Georg Büchner. Research for the play started in late 1834 and he completed a first version of the complete script in five weeks during 1835.

The play follows the story of Georges Danton, a leader of the French Revolution, during the lull between the first and second terrors.

Danton's Death was lost for more than sixty years and didn't receive its premiere until 1902 – long after Büchner's death.

1 References
2 Critical studies in English (since 1997)
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] References

[edit] Critical studies in English (since 1997)

(the MLA database lists 50 critical studies of this play since 1967)

as of March 2008:

Pendant: Büchner, Celan, and the Terrible Voice of the Meridian By: Levine, Michael G.; MLN, 2007; 122 (3): 573-601.
Playwrights Playing with History: The Play within the Play and German Historical Drama (Büchner, Brecht, Weiss, Müller) By: Gerhard Fischer. IN: Fischer and Greiner, The Play within the Play: The Performance of Meta-Theatre and Self-Reflection. Amsterdam: Rodopi; 2007. pp. 249-65
Crafting Flesh, Crafting the Self: Violence and Identity in Early Nineteenth-Century German Literature. By: John B. Lyon. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP; 2006.
Away from the Action: Narrative Rupture in Hamlet, Lorenzaccio, and Danton's Death By: Gretchen Christine Icenogle; Dissertation, U of California, Santa Barbara, 2003.
Büchner's Critique of Platonism in Dantons Tod. By: R. Taylor; Neophilologus, 2003 Apr; 87 (2): 281-97.
Robert Wilson and the Actor: Performing in Danton's Death. By: Ellen Halperin-Royer. IN: Zarrilli, Acting (Re)Considered: A Theoretical and Practical Guide. London: Routledge; 2002. pp. 319-33 ALSO IN: Theatre Topics, 1998 Mar; 8 (1): 73-91.
Rhetorical Inventio and Revolutionary Predication in Dantons Tod. By: M. Nadeem Niazi; Monatshefte für Deutschsprachige Literatur und Kultur, 2001 Spring; 93 (1): 36-52.
Sex and History, or Is There an Erotic Utopia in Dantons Tod? By: Silke-Maria Weineck; German Quarterly, 2000 Fall; 73 (4): 351-65.
In the Service of Revolution: Propaganda in Georg Büchner's Der Hessische Landbote and Dantons Tod By: Randy Keith Schantz; Dissertation, Wayne State U, 1999.
Representations of the Material and the Political Body in Shakespeare's Roman Republic and in G. Büchner's Revolutionary France By: Gilberta Golinelli; Textus: English Studies in Italy, 2000 Jan-June; 13 (1): 33-56.
Inversion of Revolutionary Ideals: A Study of the Tragic Essence of Georg Büchner's Dantons Tod, Ernst Toller's Masse Mensch, and Bertold Brecht's Die Massnahme. By: Huimin Chen. New York, NY: Peter Lang; 1998. 107 pp.
"Sie haben mich nach und nach verstümmelt": The Wounded Body and the Literary Self in Works of Goethe, Hölderlin, and Büchner. By: John Burton Lyon; Dissertation, Princeton U, 1997.
The Revolution and Its Doubles: Stories and Histories of 1789 By: Rima Canaan Lee; Dissertation, Yale U, 1996.
Saint-Just's Theodicy of History in Dantons Tod By: Rodney Taylor; Michigan Germanic Studies, 1997 Spring; 23 (1): 24-38.
'Les Peuples meurent, pour que Dieu vive': Gertrud Kolmar's Consecration of the Protagonists in the Drama of the French Revolution. By: Justus Fetscher. IN: Hüppauf, War, Violence, and the Modern Condition. Berlin, Germany: de Gruyter; 1997. pp. 317-42