The Awakening of Spring: A Tragedy of Childhood

By Frank Wedekind & Francis J. Ziegler

The Awakening of Spring: A Tragedy of Childhood - Frank Wedekind & Francis J. Ziegler
  • Release Date: 1918-03-09
  • Genre: Theater

Description

A 1910 translation of notable modernist play “Frühlings Erwachen” by Frank Wedekind, which criticized the repressive sexual culture in Europe in the nineteenth century. From the preface: “It is a tragedy of frightful import, and its action is concerned with the development of natural instincts in the adolescent of both sexes.” Translated from the German by Francis J. Ziegler.