A kaleidoscope of short, sharp shocks, George Buchner’s 1835 drama “Danton’s Death” remains almost alarmingly modern in terms of form. As it tears through the politics of the French Revolution, this ...

The letter, a witness to the birth of the French Republic, was sold to a private collector at auction to the disappointment of a group of historians, writers and politicians including Annie Duprat, ...

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 ...

A passé take on Georg Büchner’s 1835 play about the French Revolution leans into the worst instincts of the Comédie-Française, our critic writes. By Laura Cappelle Laura Cappelle is a Paris-based ...

I n the final segment of the film, when Danton is sentenced to death by Robespierre and his supporters, he says, 'You are not leading me to my death. I will live forever. The world will look at us and ...

Radicals quite often come a cropper. Many of the early Bolshevik leaders went the way of the Tsar and his doomed family. The same was true in revolutionary France where the men who toppled Louis XVI ...

Danton’s Death (by George Büchner; produced by the Mercury Theatre). Mars Director Orson Welles having blasted the U. S. into an uproar over the radio, Mercury Director Orson Welles turned last week ...

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 ...

ROBESPIERRE AND THE FOURTH ESTATE—Ralph Korngold—Moderr Age ($3.75). The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars were Act I of a European melodrama of which the Russian and German Revolutions and ...

Thousands of people were arrested and executed during the French Revolution. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Reign of Terror, ...