Gesammelte Werke, Vol. 6: Schloß Wetterstein; Franziska; Simson, oder Scham und Eifersucht; Die Flöhe, oder der Schmerzenstanz; Die Kaiserin von Neufundland (Classic Reprint) (German Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Wedekind, Frank

Leaders & Notable People

Forgotten Books

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.

Plays 1: Spring Awakening , Lulu: A Monster Tragedy

Humor & Entertainment

Methuen Drama

FRUHLINGS ERWACHEN EINE KINDERTRAGODIE

Literature & Fiction

Heinemann

Briefe (German Edition)

Arts & Literature

Adamant Media Corporation

This version of Frank Wedekind's extraordinary play Spring Awakening was specially commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company. The themes it addresses and the sheer energy of the writing make this masterpiece of German symbolism startlingly relevant today.With its scenes of pubescent angst, sexual outspokenness, rape and homosexuality, the play still, more than one hundred years after it was first staged, has the power to shock. Ted Hughes's rendition lends the dialogue a particularly modern terseness and bite, drawing out all the erotic energy of the original.

Spring Awakening

Dramas & Plays

Faber&Faber

In these intimate journals, Frank Wedekind shows himself to have been in life what he is in his plays, a subversive artist and merciless critic of bourgeois morality. He lived and worked in Wilhelmine, Germany in the 1890's, that period of economic unstability, fin de siecle decadence and artistic ferment; among the contemporaries who pass through these pages are playwright Gerhard Hauptmann and revolutionary Alexander Herzen. Wedekind shot to fame in 1895 with the first of the Lulu plays, and compounded his renown with "Spring Awakening". His plays have been claimed as typical of the Jugendstil art movement, which included Parisian art nouveau and related activity in Vienna and Glasgow, and their visionary eroticism has clear links with these diaries. This ediction includes the thirty pages of Wedekins's Paris diaries which were omitted from the German version, and numerous corrections and additions as a result of returning to the handwritten original.

Diary of an Erotic Life

Essays & Correspondence

Blackwell Pub.

The Awakening of Spring: A Tragedy of Childhood

History

World

Trieste Publishing

Excerpt from Die Büchse der Pandora: Tragödie in Drei Aufzügen, Neu Bearbeitet und mit Einem Vorwort VersehenStacbbem Die 2lnflagc Daß (R)rama als ein jeben fitt(icben unb Pim&#64258;lerifcben qberte8 bare6 Sfiacbm'erf begeicfmet hatte, murben von fämtlicben Drei fm&#64258;angcn' Die ein Urteil über Das (R)tücf 3u fällen batten, gerabe feine fittlicben unb Pünfilerifcben Qualitäten anerfannt. Ie S'm&#64258;angen waren: Das föm'glicbe ßanbgericbt I in ?berlin, Das Siteicbsgericbt in 2eip3ig unb Daß ff>nig liebe ßanbgericbt II in ?berlin.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Die Büchse der Pandora: Tragödie in Drei Aufzügen, Neu Bearbeitet und mit Einem Vorwort Versehen (Classic Reprint) (German Edition)

Wedekind's play about adolescent sexuality is as disturbing today as when it was first produced Wedekind's notorious play Spring Awakening was written in 1891 but had to wait the greater part of a century before it received its first complete performance in Britain, at the National Theatre in 1974. The production was highly praised, much of its strength deriving from this translation by Edward Bond and Elisabeth Bond Pable, 'scrupulously faithful both to Wedekind's irony and his poetry.' The Times This translation of Spring Awakening was first performed at the National Theatre, London on 24 May 1974. For this edition the translator, Edward Bond, has written a note on the play and a factual introduction to Wedekind's life and work.

Spring Awakening (Playscripts)

Calder Publications Ltd

Two of Wedekind's most seminal plays, Earth Spirit and Pandora's Box both focus on the actions of the young heroine Lulu, who embodies both animal sensuality and waif-like innocence, as she escapes a life on the streets, receives a society education, marries, takes on various lovers, becomes a dancer in a revue, is imprisoned for murder and encounters Jack the Ripper. When Earth Spirit was premiered Leipzig in 1898, Wedekind was vilified and persecuted for advocating unfeigned sexual pleasure and making his heroine a heartless whore. Death and Devil and Castle Wetterstein, the other plays that make up this volume, are essentially extensions of and complimentary to the Lulu tragedies.

The Lulu Plays & Other Sex Tragedies (German Expressionism) (English and German Edition)

Spender, Stephen

Rizzoli Intl Pubns

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Wedekind, Frank. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Wedekind, Frank