Bruce Levine, Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice, Simon and Schuster, New York, 2020 The name of Thaddeus Stevens is too little known today. Bruce Levine, professor ...
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 ...
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 ...
After “drawing the veil,” and almost justifying those days by the mouth of Roland [185] as they had justified previously the massacres of La Glacière at Lyons by the mouth of Barbaroux, [186] they now ...
Robespierre foretells end of Revolution — Causes of its termination — Hébert — Chaumette and Hébertists — Increased power of Committees of Public Welfare and Public Safety — The struggle for power — ...
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 ...
ROBESPIERRE, one of the great typical, symbolic figures of history, by reason of his very typicalness has come to have in the mind of the less considerate reader a kind of false unity and simplicity ...
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