The Harvard Crimson

Danton's Death

Set during the French Reign of Terror, "Danton's Death" follows the demise of Jacobin leader Georges Danton, who becomes disenchanted with the Revolutionary government and is subsequently sent to the ...
World Socialist Web Site

Danton’s Death at the National Theatre

A review of Danton’s Death by Georg Büchner in a new version by Howard Brenton at the National Theatre in London, directed by Michael Grandage. Danton’s Death, the famed play by German writer Georg ...
The Harvard Crimson

‘Danton’ Drags Painfully Toward Death

To insult a girl in the style of the French revolutionaries, calling her “a stained bordello bed sheet”—as stage prompter Simon does to one of his conquests—might do the trick. Memorable lines like ...
The Economist

Devoured by his own creation

Danton: The Gentle Giant of Terror. By David Lawday. Jonathan Cape; 294 pages; £20. To be published in America by Grove Atlantic at the end of 2010. Buy from Amazon ...
The Arts Desk

Danton's Death, National Theatre

The latter admittedly crashes its way, somewhat psychotically, into Büchner's last and unfinished Woyzeck, one of the strangest yet most influential dramas of the 19th-century European repertoire; and ...