Spring Awakening - Couverture souple

Wedekind, Frank

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1848420560 ISBN 13 : 9781848420564

Editeur : Nick Hern Books, 2010

Synopsis

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price

Frank Wedekind's famously banned German play written in 1891 focuses on a group of classmates and explores adolescent sexuality and the emotional consequences if suppressed.

This edition of Spring Awakening in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series is an English translation by Julian Forsyth and Margarete Forsyth.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Number eighty five in NHB's Drama Classics Series, providing the world's great drama at a great price.

The introduction to this edition of Spring Awakening includes a short biography of Frank Wedekind a guide to what happens in the play; a short study of the background, structure and themes; a study of the play's struggle against censorship, and an index of key dates.

Frank Wedekind's once-banned and still controversial German play from 1891 focuses on a group of classmates and explores teenage sexuality holding up a mirror to our own times. The play depicts with candour well ahead of its time adolescent sexual curiosity and its unthinking repression by parents and schoolteachers alike. Treated by the playwright with sympathy and humanity the youngsters in Wedekind's masterpiece go variously, and even fatally, adrift in a society too scared to allow feelings to rise to the surface. Wedekind's play provided the source material for the smash-hit Broadway musical of the same name.

Biographie de l'auteur

FRANK WEDEKIND (I864-1918) came into an inheritance aged 22, when his father died, which enabled him to pursue his chosen career as a writer and performer. Working initially in cabaret, he began writing for the stage with Spring Awakening in 1891. In Earth Spirit (1895) and Pandora's Box (1904) he created the figure of Lulu, an innocent femme fatale, famously played on screen by Louise Brooks.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Nick Hern Books
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1848420560
• ISBN 13: 9781848420564
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible