Peter Weiss’s 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

 

DRAMATURGY PACKET

 

By James Dolph

 

Director: Dr. Judith Pender for the OU School of Drama, Fall 2005

 

CONTENTS:

1.                 The French Revolution in Short

2.                Glossary Of Possibly Unfamiliar Words In Weiss’s Text

3.                Encyclopedic Glossary Of Historic Allusions

4.                Jean-Paul Marat

5.                The Marquis Donatien Alphonse François, comte de Sade

6.                 Marie-Anne-Charlotte Corday

7.                Simonne Evrard

8.                Jacques Roux

9.                 Claude-Romain Lauze-Dupperret

10.            Francois Simonet de Coulmier

11.             The Chorus

12.   Just a Few Words on Artaud, Brecht, and Weiss