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In the mid-1960s, 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 was made into a film by Peter Brook. The weaving of time, space, plot, real-and-imagined characters, sexual liberation, and surrealist imagery made Marat/Sade a sensation. Little did audiences realize this "counterculture" play was actually written by a German Jew. The then-practically unknown Peter Weiss (1916-82) was also at work on a play about Auschwitz -- The Investigation -- which is one of the most significant literary treatments of the subject. Both plays, plus The Shadow of the Coachman's Body, are included in this exciting volume.
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