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Marat-Sade/The Investigation/The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman

Peter Weiss (1916-1982) was virtually unknown in the mid-1960s when Peter Brook made Marat/Sade into a film. The weaving of time, space, plot, real-and-imagined characters, sexual liberation, and surrealist imagery made Marat/Sade a sensation. Little did audiences realize that this counterculture classic was written by a German Jew. At that time, Weiss was also at work on a play about Auschwitz: The Investigation. These two dramas are in this volume along with The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman. All are cogently introduced and edited by Robert Cohen.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 324
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780826409638
  • Genres
  • plays, theatre, drama, history
  • Release date
  • 1998