num_pages: 176
description: Danton’s Death, his great fresco of the French Revolution, was written in five weeks when Buchner was under threat of arrest for his own revolutionary activities. His sad comedy, Leonce and Lena, was composed in haste for a publisher's competition for which it was entered too late. The extraordinary proletarian tragedy Woyzek, on which Alban Berg based his opera, was left unfinished at Buchner's death. Virtually unknown until the end of the nineteenth century, the plays have found an important place in the modern international repertory.
language: English
title: Danton's Death / Leonce and Lena / Woyzeck
titlecomplete: Danton's Death / Leonce and Lena / Woyzeck
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, Romanticism, Drama, German Literature, Literature, Classics, 19th Century, Germany
ratings_count: 398
publisher: Oxford University Press