Wedekind Plays One: Spring Awakening: A Children's Tragedy Lulu: A Monster Tragedy (World Classics) - Softcover

Wedekind, Frank

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0413675408 ISBN 13: 9780413675408

Verlag: Methuen Drama, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

Wedekind's expressionist plays influenced the whole course of modern drama





A moralist who wore the mask of an immoralist, Wedekind was the terror of the German bourgeoisie. His work was censored and the original Lulu play was not even published during his lifetime; Wedekind toned it down and adapted it to make two plays: Pandora's Box and Earth-Spirit. The version in this volume, Lulu: A Monster Tragedy, is based on the first manuscript, presenting the original sexually voracious heroine to a British audience for the first time. The volume also contains Spring Awakening, "a work of great compassion that still has a lot to teach us about the dangers of battening down adolescent sex. . ." (Guardian). The translation of Spring Awakening ("scrupulously faithful both to Wedekind's irony and his poetry" The Times) was commissioned by the National Theatre and that of Lulu: A Monster Tragedy ("the Bonds' version is sharper and funnier than its predecessors" Guardian) was toured nationally. Both plays are complemented by the translators' historically illuminating introductions.

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Frank Wedekind (1864-1918) had a seminal effect on the development of twentieth-centruy German drama. His plays portray a society riven by the demands of lust and greed, and his powerful writing continues to disturb and shock; his plays were still being refused a performing licence in Britain in the 1960s.

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A moralist who wore the mask of an immoralist, Wedekind was the terror of the German bourgeoisie. His work was censored and the original Lulu play was not even published during his lifetime. Wedekind toned it down and adapted it to make two plays: Pandora's Box and Earth-Spirit. The version in this volume, Lulu: A Monster Tragedy is based on the first manuscript, presenting the original sexually voracious heroine to a British audience for the first time.

Both plays are complemented by the translators' historically illuminating introductions.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Methuen Drama
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0413675408
• ISBN 13: 9780413675408
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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