Samuel A. Eliot, who studied Wedekind in Munich in 1913, gathers his most notorious plays with a long critical introduction. Spring’s Awakening follows schoolchildren destroyed by adults’ silence about sex, and the Lulu tragedies trace an irresistible woman through a series of lovers, husbands and catastrophes.
Essential plays of modern European theatre, forerunners of expressionism and of Berg’s opera Lulu. Download the free EPUB.