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(Applause Books). "The complete script to Frank Wedekind's symphony
or rather a cacophony of deotic sexual rhetorics. Eric Bentley's
achievement here as translator is a beautifully playable and juicy
English; his larger gift is the opening to us of what must be
ranked as among the supreme masterpieces of nineteenth-century
theater." Donald Lyons, The New Criterion
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Spring Awakening is set in a small German town in the 1890s, where
adolescent boys and girls grope their way towards knowledge and
maturity against the blocks set up by parents and teachers in the
name of "morality". Melchior, fearless in his pursuit of the truth,
manages to retain his freedom of spirit, but his friends are not so
lucky or strong. Wedekind's controversial play occupies a special
place in modern theatrical history as a key work of the naturalist
school and the principal precursor of German Expressionism.
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Lulu (Paperback, New Ed)
Frank Wedekind; Adapted by Nicholas Wright
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R306
R240
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Nicholas Wright's version of Wedekind's celebrated erotic
masterpiece is the first to be based on the author's original text,
restoring the clarity, the daring and the sexual explicitness of a
modern masterpiece written a hundred years before its time. Lulu is
the story of the decline and fall of a young woman possessed of a
fatal combination of sexuality and innocence. She passes from
German and Parisian high society to the streets of Jack the
Ripper's London - destroying, and ultimately destroyed by, her
lovers. Wedekind originally wrote his extraordinary 'monster
tragedy' a full twenty years before the First World War. Finding
no-one prepared to stage it on account of its sexual candour, he
toned it down and rewrote it as two full-length dramas, which is
how The Lulu Plays were published and produced throughout most of
the twentieth century. Nicholas Wright's version, based on
Wedekind's original text, reveals the author's original conception
for the play. It was premiered at the Almeida Theatre, London, in
2001.
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 in 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.
At once a dystopian fantasy and a critique of sexual norms,
Mine-Haha describes a unique boarding institution for girls - part
idyllic refuge, part prison - where pupils are trained only in the
physical arts of movement, dance and music, before issuing into an
adult world for which they have (unwittingly) been prepared. The
narrator is an old woman recalling her strange childhood and the
story is focused through the eyes of her earlier self. Mine-Haha
was praised for its progressive outlook by Leon Trotsky in 1908,
and has inspired two films - Lucile Hadzihalilovic's Innocence
(2004) and John Irvin's The Fine Art of Love (2005). It is here
presented alongside two rare, complementary short fictional pieces:
'The Burning of Egliswyl' and 'The Sacrificial Lamb'.
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Spring Awakening (Paperback)
Charlotte Ryland; Frank Wedekind; Translated by Edward Bond
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R326
Discovery Miles 3 260
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A Student Edition of Wedekind's classic 1891 expressionist play
about adolescent sexuality.Wedekind's notorious play "Spring
Awakening "influenced a whole trend of modern drama and remains
relevant to today's society, exploring the oppression and rebellion
of adolescents among draconian parents and morals. This seminal
work looks at the conflict between repressive adulthood and teenage
sexual longings in a provincial German town.Highly controversial
and with themes of sexuality, social attitudes and adolescence, the
play is a popular and provocative text for study, especially at
undergraduate level.This translation by Edward Bond first brought
the play to English audiences when it premiered at the National
Theatre in 1974. Receiving high praise ('scrupulously faithful both
to Wedekind's irony and his poetry.' "The Times), "this version is
now considered to be the definitive English translation.This
Student Edition features expert and helpful annotation, including a
scene-by-scene summary, a detailed commentary on the dramatic,
social and political context, and on the themes, characters,
language and structure of the play, as well as a list of suggested
reading and questions for further study and a review of performance
history.
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Castle Wetterstein (Paperback)
Frank Wedekind; Edited by Ian Johnston; Translated by Ian Johnston
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R594
Discovery Miles 5 940
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