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

Weiss, Peter. Atheneum, New York. 1966

English version by Geoffrey Skelton

Verse Adaptation by Adrian Mitchell

Introduction by Peter Brook

A play within a play that is "not historical drama", based on "historical truths: The famous - the infamous - Marquis De Sade was confined in the lunatic asylum of Charenton, where he stages plays; and the revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat was stabbed in a bathtub by Charlotte Corday at the height of the Terror during the Revolution."