Frank Wedekind

The Lulu Plays and Other Sex Tragedies

Übersetzer: Spender, Stephen

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

From the silent classic "Pandora's Box" to Metallica and Lou Reed's 2011 collaboration to a 2013 graphic novel adaption, the Lulu plays continue to inspire discussionTwo 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 complementary to the Lulu tragedies."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury USA
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 321g
• ISBN-13: 9781847491879
• ISBN-10: 1847491871
• Artikelnr.: 39615577

Autorenporträt

Frank Wedekind (1864-1918) was a controversial and experimental German playwright best-known for his Lulu plays and his play "Spring Awakening." Living most of his life in Munich, he was once imprisoned fornine months for insulting the Kaiser through satirical poetry."