It was a surprising oversight in the centuries-old repertoire of the Comédie-Française, France’s foremost theater company. Until now, it had never performed Georg Büchner’s 1835 “Danton ...

Danton’s Death, the famed play by German writer Georg Büchner, follows the conflict which took place in March and April 1794 within the “Mountain”—the most revolutionary wing of the ...

Danton's Death - Benjamin T. Clark '09 flirts with Julia B. Konrad '13 as Jacobin leader Georges Danton in the Loeb Mainstage production of Büchner's "Danton's Death." By Sara Joe Wolansky ...

Benjamin T. Clark '09 flirts with Julia B. Konrad '13 as Jacobin leader Georges Danton in the Loeb Mainstage production of Büchner's "Danton's Death." By Clio C. Smurro, Crimson Staff Writer.

One of those Jacobins was Georges Danton. It is hard to feel particularly sorry for him in Georg Buchner’s play because all the time you know that he helped to start the bloodshed which has led ...

Danton's Death, National Theatre, review. An acute analysis of the dangers of radicalism and a powerful meditation on death that often brings Shakespeare’s Hamlet to mind.

On Sunday, March 12, the Osenat House auctioned the only surviving letter from Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794) to Georges Danton (1759-1794). It was sold to a French collector for €218,750.