The Karl Marx Play (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Rochelle Bass
- First Published: 1971
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Expressionism
- Time of Work: The mid-nineteenth century
- Setting: London, England
- Genres: Drama, Expressionist literature, Musical drama, Biographical drama
- Subjects: Values, Philosophy or philosophers, Politics, Socialism, Sex or sexuality, Nineteenth century, Marriage, England or English people, Economics, London, Capitalism, Biography
- Locales: London, England
Characters Discussed
Karl Heinrich Marx, a German economist, philosopher, and socialist. At home with his large family, his partner Engels, and Leadbelly, Marx is torn in anguish between his love for his family and a passion to fulfill their needs, on one hand, and his calling to invent socialism, on the other. He is a sufferer, physically with boils and spiritually with a loss of faith and purpose, a Job in the age of science who denies his family’s religion and curses Yahweh (Jehovah). Marx denies that he is a Jew and calls himself a German and a European. Engels calls him...
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