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 by Peter Weiss

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

Ibrahim Guerra, Teatro

Peter Weiss with Richard Peaslee, Geoffrey Skelton, Peter Brook, Adrian Mitchell

128 pages • first pub 1963 (view editions)

fiction play challenging reflective sad slow-paced
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 This extraordinary play, which swept Europe before coming to America, is based on two historical truths: the infamous Marquis de Sade was confined in the lunatic asylum of Charenton, where he staged plays; and the revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat wa...

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