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Spring Awakening (German: Frühlings Erwachen) (also translated as Spring's Awakening and The Awakening of Spring) is the German dramatist Frank Wedekind's first major play and a foundational work in the modern history of theatre.
- Tom G. Evans, Frank Wedekind
- 1910
Feb 11, 2011 · Dealing with adolescence, an unformed period of human life, it is necessarily without the climaxes we expect in dramas in which the characters are adult, and the gruesome scene in the churchyard with which the play closes—a scene with such peculiar symbolism could spring only from a Teutonic imagination—leaves much unended.
Feb 11, 2011 · The Awakening of Spring: A Tragedy of Childhood by Frank Wedekind. Read now or download (free!) Similar Books. Readers also downloaded… About this eBook. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
- Wedekind, Frank, 1864-1918
- Frühlings Erwachen. English
- Ziegler, Francis J. (Francis Joseph), 1866
Wedekind’s characteristic theme in his dramas was the antagonism of the elemental force of sex to the philistinism of society. In 1891 the publication of his tragedy Frühlings Erwachen ( The Awakening of Spring, also published as Spring Awakening) created a scandal.
Nov 17, 2008 · With Yuval David, John Aniston, Gary Bisig, Nicholas Downs. Based on the 1891 play "Spring Awakening," this filmed stage drama examines the tensions and confusion of young people as their growing sexual awareness conflicts with the repressive social environment around them.
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- Drama, Romance
- Arthur Allan Seidelman
- 2008-11-17
Spring Awakening is a play written in 1891 by Frank Wedekind (1864-1918), a German playwright. [1] The work depicts schoolchildren in a German provincial town in the 1890s whose struggle to reconcile their budding sexual feelings and the moral code of their society leads them to tragedy.
Spring Awakening: A Children’s Tragedy is an 1891 bildungsroman by the German playwright Frank Wedekind. The play chronicles a group of teenagers struggling to navigate puberty in the sexually repressive environment of fin-de-siècle provincial Germany.
