{"product_id":"9780881452716","title":"Danton's Death","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis is your rhetoric translated. These wretches, these executioners, the guillotine are your speeches come to life. You have built your doctrines out of human heads... \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhy should an event that transforms the whole of humanity not advance through blood?\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1794: the French Revolution reaches its climax. After a series of bloody purges the life-loving, volatile Danton is tormented by his part in the killing. His political rival, the driven, ascetic Robespierre, decides Danton's fate. A titanic struggle begins. Once friends who wanted to change the world, now one stands for compromise the other for ideological purity as the guillotine awaits. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA revolutionary himself, George Büchner was 21 when he wrote the play in 1835, while hiding from the police. With its hair-raising on-rush of scenes and vivid dramatisation of complex, visionary characters, \u003ci\u003eDanton's Death \u003c\/i\u003ehas a claim to be the greatest political tragedy ever written. In his newly-revised translation, Howard Brenton captures Büchner's exhilarating energy as Danton struggles to avoid his inexorable fall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadway Play Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49807962931440,"sku":"9780881452716","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780881452716","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}