In that play, which contains a dialogue between Lacroix and Legendre, the title character dies after he talks with Camille, whose wife Lucille Demoulins proclaims "Long live the King!"
AHJ Knight introduced this author to English audiences. In one of his plays, one character compares the people of a republic with a minotaur that must be fed a diet of corpses. In that play, which contains a dialogue between Lacroix and Legendre, the title character dies after he talks with Camille, whose wife Lucille Demoulins proclaims "Long live the King!" In another play by this author, the protagonist constantly believes that flames are tearing the heavens apart, and when he goes to see the doctor in scene 8, he is declared rational and given a pay bonus. In that drama by this author, which is written as a collection of 25 scenes, the title character is shown cutting reeds with a knife in the first scene and being wildly insulted for agreeing with the Officer who he is shaving in the sixth scene before he finds out his wife and the Drum-Major are flirting.  For 10 points, name this German playwright who wrote Danton's Death and Woyzeck.
AHJ Knight introduced this author to English audiences. In one of his plays, one character compares the people of a republic with a minotaur that must be fed a diet of corpses.
Georg Buchner