The persecution and assassination of Marat as performed by the inmates of the asylum of Charenton under the direction of the marquis de Sade
By: by Peter Weiss
Contributors: Brook, Peter; Peaslee, Richard C.; Royal Shakespeare Company
Publisher: Caedmon.
Published: 1966
Language: eng
Subjects: Drama
Work titles: Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats
Description: An account of the murder of a revolutionary politician, Marat, and an attempt to show, through a series of distorting mirrors, the problematic nature of achieving a valid representation of reality through drama.
Notes: Title from container.

English version of the play by Geoffrey Skelton; verse adaptation by Adrian Mitchell.

Automatic sequence.

Biographical sketches and notes on the play, by Martin Esslin ([16] p.) and text of the play with incidental music (x, 117 p.) laid in container.

Music by Richard Peaslee.

Royal Shakespeare Company; Peter Brook, director. With incidental music by Richard C. Peaslee.