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Spring Awakening

By Frank Wedekind

Spring Awakening Drama

Spring Awakening

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From Jonathan Franzen, bestselling author of The Corrections and Crossroads, comes his razor-sharp translation of Frank Wedekind's major modern play, Spring Awakening. Featuring an introduction by Franzen. First performed in Germany in 1906, Frank Wedekind's controversial play Spring Awakening closed after one night in New York in 1917 amid charges of obscenity and public outrage. For the better part of the twentieth century Wedekind's intense body of work was largely unpublished and rarely performed. Yet the play's subject matter-teenage desire, suicide, abortion, and homosexuality-is as explosive and important today as it was a century ago. Spring Awakening follows the lives of three teenagers, Melchior, Moritz, and Wendl, as they navigate their entry into sexual awareness. Unlike so many works that claim to tell the truth of adolescence, Spring Awakening offers no easy answers or redemption. Today, more than a hundred years after the play's first performance, a new musical version of this essential modern masterpiece is being hailed as the "best new musical . . . in a generation" (John Heilpern, The New York Observer). Franzen's rendition of the text-for so long poorly served in English-is unique in capturing the bizarre and inimitable comic spirit that animates almost every line of this unrelentingly tragic play. There couldn't be a better time for this thrilling, definitive new translation.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
112
Release Date:
2007-09-04
Publication Date:
2007-09-04
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
086547978X
ISBN13:
9780865479784
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
109 g
Height:
142 cm
Width:
208 cm
Thickness:
8 cm
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