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

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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

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

128 pages • digital • first pub 1963 • 15 editions

fiction play challenging reflective sad slow-paced

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This extraordinary play, which swept across 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 Ma...