Marat/Sade, the Investigation, and the Shadow of the Coachman's Body

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by Peter Weiss,

Edited by Robert Cohen

Continuum Publishing

Due/Published July 1998, 324 pages, paper

ISBN 0826409636

Peter Weiss (1916-1982) was virtually unknown in the mid-1960s when Peter Brook made Marat/Sade into a film. The weaving of time, space, plot, real-and-imagined characters, sexual liberation, and surrealist imagery made Marat/Sade a sensation. Little did audiences realize that this counterculture classic was written by a German Jew. At that time, Weiss was also at work on a play about Auschwitz: The Investigation. These two dramas are in this volume along with The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman. All are cogently introduced and edited by Robert Cohen.