The Lulu Plays
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2015 | Film & TV
Two of Wedekind's most seminal plays, "Earth Spirit" and "Pandora's Box" both focus on the actions of the young heroine Lulu, who embodies both animal sensuality and waif-like innocence, as she escapes a life on the streets, receives a society education, marries, takes on various lovers, becomes a dancer in a revue, is imprisoned for murder, and encounters Jack the Ripper. When "Earth Spirit" was premiered Leipzig in 1898, Wedekind was vilified and persecuted for advocating unfeigned sexual pleasure and making his heroine a heartless whore. "Death and Devil" and "Castle Wetterstein," the other plays that make up this volume, are essentially extensions of and complementary to the Lulu tragedies.
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Published by | Alma Books Ltd |
Edition | Unknown |
ISBN | 9781847494603 |
Language | N/A |
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