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The Lulu Plays and Other Sex Tragedies

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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.>

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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.


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Authors Stephen Spender, Frank Wedekind
Assisted by Stephen Spender (Translation)
Publisher Alma Books
 
Content Book
Product form Paperback / Softback
Publication date 31.12.2020
Subject Fiction > Poetry, drama
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies
 
EAN 9780714549996
ISBN 978-0-7145-4999-6
Pages 304
Dimensions (packing) 12.8 x 19.8 x 2.4 cm
 

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