Georg BuÌchner : the major works, contexts, criticism / edited by Matthew Wilson Smith, Cornell University ; texts of the major works translated by Henry J. Schmidt.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-412).

The texts of BuÌchner's major works. The Hessian messenger ; Danton's death ; Lenz ; Leonce and Lena ; Woyzeck : a reconstruction ; The drafts ; Introduction to On cranial nerves -- Selected letters -- Impression of the Giessen student Georg BuÌchner / Karl Vogt -- Wanted poster -- From Pastor Oberlin's diary / Johann Friedrich Oberlin -- From the legal accountability of the murderer Johann Christian Woyzeck / Johann Christian August Clarus -- From diary account of BuÌchner's last days / Caroline Schulz -- Forebears, descendants, and contemporary kin : BuÌchner and literary tradition / Herbert Lindenberger -- Georg BuÌchner : a selective stage history / Laura Ginters -- The Hessian messenger in the political context of 1964 / Hans Magnus Enzensberger -- BuÌchner and rhetoric / Victor Brombert -- On Danton's death / Bertolt Brecht -- Skepticism, ideology, and history in BuÌchner's Dantons Tod / Edward McInnes -- Women, death, and revolution / Henry J. Schmidt -- On Max Reinhardt's Danton's death / Ernst Stern -- On Orson Welles's Danton's death / John Houseman -- Wilson, Danton, and me / Richard Thomas -- BuÌchner, Lenz / Erika Swales -- Leonce and Lena : tragic comedy by Georg BuÌchner / Thomas Bernhard -- BuÌchner, Leonce und Lena / Andrew Webber -- On Woyzeck / Rainer Maria Rilke -- Woyzeck and Lear / George Steiner -- Some aspects of imagery in BuÌchner's Woyzeck / John A. McCarthy -- Natur and kunst / John Reddick -- Clarus, Woyzeck, and the politics of accountability / Peter Schwartz -- The meridian / Paul Celan -- Speaking of BuÌchner / Christa Wolf -- The wounded Woyzeck / Heiner MuÌller -- Breaking the body / Durs GruÌnbein -- Georg BuÌchner : a chronology.