The Lulu Plays and Other Sex Tragedies - Softcover
From the silent classic Pandora's Box to Metallica and Lou Reed's 2011 collaboration to a 2013 graphic novel adaption, the Lulu plays continue to inspire discussion 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 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 controversial and experimental German playwright best-known for his Lulu plays and his play Spring Awakening. Living most of his life in Munich, he was once imprisoned for nine months for insulting the Kaiser through satirical poetry.
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- PublisherAlma Books
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1847491871
- ISBN 13 9781847491879
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- Number of pages296
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