Spring Awakening: Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics)

By Frank Wedekind

The NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography, key dates and suggestions for further reading) and the complete text, uncluttered with footnotes. The translations, by leading experts in the field, are accurate and above all actable. The editions of English-language plays include a glossary of unusual words and phrases to aid understanding.
Frank Wedekind's famously banned German play, Spring Awakening, was written in 1891 and focuses on a group of classmates and explores adolescent sexuality and the emotional consequences if suppressed.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Release date: Dec 4, 2014
• ISBN: 9781780015231

Frank Wedekind

Frank Wedekind (18641918) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller und Theaterautor. Er schrieb zahlreiche oft provokative Theaterstücke, die sich mit Tabuthemen, etwa jugendlicher Sexualität, befassten. Wedekind war auch politischer Aktivist und Verfechter von Frauenrechten und Homosexualität. Seine Stücke werden bis heute aufgeführt.

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