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  1. 1 day ago · Jean-Paul Marat ( UK: / ˈmærɑː /, US: / məˈrɑː /, [1] [2] French: [ʒɑ̃pɔl maʁa]; born Mara; 24 May 1743 – 13 July 1793) was a French political theorist, physician, and scientist. [3] A journalist and politician during the French Revolution, he was a vigorous defender of the sans-culottes, a radical voice, and published his views ...

  2. 3 days ago · The Death of Marat, oil painting (1793) by French artist Jacques-Louis David depicting the assassination of Jean-Paul Marat, a radical activist of the French Revolution, by Charlotte Corday, a supporter of the opposing political party. With The Death of Marat, David transformed traditional history.

  3. 3 days ago · In a play like Peter Weiss's Marat/Sade, Brechtian alienation effects and absurdist projections of the consciousness of madmen onto a stage are cunningly mingled, but ultimately the whole ...

  4. 3 days ago · As historical drama the play is not unlike such other contemporary works as Weiss's Marat/Sade, Camus' Caligula, or Kopit's Indians—each represents history as a random and mysterious course of ...

  5. 5 days ago · Annotation. This famous depiction of Marat’s assassination (1793) is by the unofficial (and sometimes official) artist of the French Revolution, Jacques–Louis David, a leading exponent of the neoclassical style. Scholars have seen this vision as a revolutionary pietà because of the repose of the corpse, so different from that of a normal ...

  6. 4 days ago · First English language production of Marat/Sade. In 1964, the great British theatre director Peter Brook directed the first English language production of Marat/Sade by the Royal Shakespeare Company. The production featured a play within a play set in the Charenton asylum in France.

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