Danton’s Death (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Georg Büchner
- First Published: 1835
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Tragedy
- Time of Work: March-April, 1794
- Genres: Drama, Tragedy
- Subjects: Politics, Revolutionaries, France or French people, Revolutions, Antiheroes, Paris, Eighteenth century, Politicians, French Revolution
- Locales: Paris, France
Places Discussed
*Paris. Capital of France and center of revolutionary activity in which the play is set. The locations of many of the play’s scenes are only vaguely identified, such as “a room” and “a street”; however, all the crucial locations of the Terror are carefully included, in telling sequence. One crucial scene in act 1 takes place in a Jacobin Club, and a scene in act 2 is set in the National Convention (the Revolutionary government). Act 3 moves back and forth between the Luxembourg prison, the Revolutionary Tribunal (the court that issued condemnations),...
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