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 Peter Weiss ; English version by Geoffrey Skelton ; verse adaptation by Adrian Mitchell ; introduction by Peter Brook ; music by Richard Peaslee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weiss, Peter, 1916-1982.

Contributor:

Skelton, Geoffrey.

Mitchell, Adrian, 1932-2008.

Brook, Peter, 1925-2022.

Peaslee, Richard

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Marat, Jean Paul, 1743-1793--Assassination--Drama.

Marat, Jean Paul.

Sade, marquis de, 1740-1814--Drama.

Sade.

Sade, marquis de, 1740-1814.

Marat, Jean Paul, 1743-1793.

Psychiatric hospital patients.

Assassination.

France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Drama.

France.

History.

Psychiatric hospital patients--France--Drama.

Genre:

Drama.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

x, 117 pages, 1 unnumbered page : music ; 22 cm

Manufacture:

New York : Manufactured by H. Wolff.

Other Title:

Marat/Sade

Marat Sade

Place of Publication:

New York : Atheneum, 1965.

Language Note:

Translation of: Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats Dargestellt Durch Die Schauspielgruppe des Hospizes zu Charenton Unter Anleitung des Jerrm de Sade published by Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1964.

Notes:

"Music composed specially for the first British production of the play by R. C. Peaslee": p. 111-117.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy is paperback edition with title statement ending "Introduction by Peter Brook".

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok February 1966 New York".

ISBN:

0689705689

OCLC:

1128644