The Hessian Messenger

Name: The Hessian Messenger
Author: Georg Büchner

by Georg Büchner

Political pamphlet advocating peasant uprising against oppression

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Georg Büchner

German playwright who died at 23 but left three plays that anticipated naturalism, expressionism, and the absurd by half a century. Woyzeck, left unfinished, is among the most performed and studied plays in the world. His compressed, fragmented dramaturgy was generations ahead of its time.

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