The Lulu Plays and Other Sex Tragedies

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.>

About the author

Frank Wedekind (1864-1918) was a playwright, poet, journalist, actor and cabaret singer, whose works revolutionized European literature, and also once caused him to be imprisoned for nine months for lèse-majesté.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Spender, Frank Wedekind
• Assisted by: Stephen Spender (Translation)
• Publisher: Alma Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780714549996
• ISBN: 978-0-7145-4999-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies