Danton's Death

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.

References

Critical studies in English (since 1997)

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

as . 319-33 ALSO IN: Theatre Topics, 1998 Mar; 8 (1): 73-91.

1. Rhetor7 Spring; 23 (1): 24-38.
2. '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

See also

• List of German-language playwrights

External links

• Works by Georg Büchner at Project Gutenberg
• Dantons Tod Büchner's original text (in German)
• Büchner's birthplace