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Lulu Plays and Other Sex Tragedies (German Expressionism)
Frank Wedekind

Calder Publications, 1980

4 reviews
Frank Wedekind

Faber & Faber, 2007

Just as relevant today as a century ago!
Spring awakening explores the sexual awakening of teenage boys and girls in Germany in the late 1800's. It was shocking in its day, and still is somewhat today, despite the openness of our society. The Frank Wedekind play has been updated, set to music, and will open as a major Broadway Musical in Spring, 2003. Watch for it, you will be blown away! And be sure to read the play first. You'll be ...

Frank Wedekind: Four Major Plays (Great Translations for Actors Series.)
Frank Wedekind

Smith & Kraus, 2000

Frank Wedekind (1864-1918) is rightly called the prophet of sexuality in modern drama. He himself wandered the world in the company of adventurers, libertines, "perverts," and underground figures, seeking to "know love in all its manifestations." Society's antagonism toward the power of sex is the motivating force in the entire body of his work. And yet Wedekind was a moralist in the strictest sense: sex, he seems to say, is its own enemy. His ...

The Lulu plays (Tulane drama review series)

1 review
Frank Wedekind

Fawcett Publications, 1967

Merely Ok
This is an interesting historical curiosity in which a woman rules men with sex, but once she starts taking an active role she's hemmed in and destroyed. Somehow I expected a little more punch from this play. The version I saw turned it into a cabaret act, but the actual text is much less stimulating. In fact there are too many people standing around talking about the philosophical pains of sex. ...

The First Lulu: by Frank Wedekind * English Version of the Play by Eric Bentley
Frank Wedekind

Applause Books, 2000

"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

Lulu (Nick Hern Books Drama Classics)
Frank Wedekind

Nick Hern Books, 2001

Lulu is a walking, talking object of sexual desire. Each of the first four acts of the play sees her married to a different man, each of whom dies at the end. In the fifth act, Lulu has become a prostitute in late-Victorian London where she encounters Jack the Ripper, who she deliberately leads on. This is Nicholas Wright's new version of Wedekind's early 20th century erotic drama.

Wedekind Four Plays: Volume II
Frank Wedekind

Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, 2002

Frank Wedekind (1864-1918) is one of the undisputed forerunners of the modern stage. An arch radical, he has been described as a master of the shock tactic and the terror of the German bourgeoisie, a lunatic and a criminal who wrote plays of such filth that they are best performed in the gutter. Others invoke him as God's fool, and yet one thing is certain: He stirs the emotions, pro and con, as deeply as it is possible to ...

Diary of an Erotic Life
Frank Wedekind

Blackwell Pub, 1990

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 ...

Spring's Awakening

12 reviews
Frank Wedekind

Applause Books, 2000

In light of this play, society hasn't changed much today
I assigned this play to my drama class this fall. At first reading, I witnessed my students' eyes light up and watched them get involved in serious introspection and discussion for the first time. They were inspired. One ignorant parent contacted school administration, and the play was officially banned from our school and the classroom. What a shame. Sad to say...the narrowmindedness of parents ...

Suhrkamp BasisBibliothek (SBB), Nr.21, Frühlings Erwachen
Frank Wedekind, Hansgeorg Schmidt-Bergmann

Suhrkamp, 2002

Frühlings Erwachen
Frank Wedekind

Reclam Philipp Jun., 1995

Frühlings Erwachen. Erläuterungen und Materialien. (Lernmaterialien)
Frank Wedekind, Thomas Möbius

Bange, 2001

Wedekind Plays: One
Frank Wedekind

Methuen Publishing, Ltd., 2000

A moralist who wore the mask of an immoralist, Wedekind was the terror of the German bourgeoisie.

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