Marat / Sade Study Guide consists of approx. 61 pages of summaries and analysis on Marat / Sade by Peter Weiss. Browse the literature study guide below:
The full title of this play is "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." Theatrically, politically, and socially complex, this play dramatizes the events surrounding the production of a play about the French Revolution. Those events are themselves dramatized, giving Marat/Sade the structure of a "play within a play." (read more)
