Earth Spirit: A Tragedy in Four Acts

Name: Earth Spirit: A Tragedy in Four Acts
Author: Frank Wedekind
ISBN: 9781910660362

Author: Frank Wedekind
Series: World Classics
Language: English
Length: 112 pages
ISBN: 9781910660362
Published: 5 January 2015
Imprint: Sovereign

Erdgeist
Lulu
Pandora's Box
Die Buchse der Pandora
lust
greed
consumerism
expressionism
epic
drama

All titles

Description

Lulu has been rescued by the rich newspaper publisher Dr Schon from a life on the streets with her alleged father, the petty criminal Schigolch. Dr Schon has taken Lulu under his wing, educated her and made her his lover. Wishing however to make a more socially advantageous match for himself, he has married her off to the medic Dr Goll.

Author

Frank Wedekind (1864–1918) was the German dramatist of Lulu — Earth Spirit and Pandora's Box — a tragedy of desire that later became opera and a century's scandal. He wrote against the polite stage, putting sex and money in the same hard light. Three titles here. The plays still feel like a door kicked open in a drawing room.

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