Spring Awakening
Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind is a New Ed edition published by Faber in 1995, featuring 84 pages in English. This version of the play was specially commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company and explores themes of adolescence, sexuality, and societal constraints, making it a significant work of German symbolism that remains relevant today.
Readers will encounter a vivid portrayal of pubescent angst and the complexities of sexual awakening, as the play addresses challenging topics such as rape and homosexuality. Ted Hughes’s rendition enhances the dialogue with a modern terseness, capturing the original’s energetic essence. This edition invites exploration of the dramatic elements that continue to resonate with contemporary audiences.
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This version of Frank Wedekind’s extraordinary play Spring Awakening was specially commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company. The themes it addresses and the sheer energy of the writing make this masterpiece of German symbolism startlingly relevant today.
With its scenes of pubescent angst, sexual outspokenness, rape and homosexuality, the play still, more than one hundred years after it was first staged, has the power to shock. Ted Hughes’s rendition lends the dialogue a particularly modern terseness and bite, drawing out all the erotic energy of the original.
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