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Pandora's Box; A Tragedy in Three Acts

By Frank Wedekind

2020-01-21 21:34:15

Pandora's Box is a 1904 play by the German dramatist Frank Wedekind. It forms the second part of his pairing of 'Lulu' plays, the first being Earth Spirit (1895), both of which depict a society "riven by the demands of lust and greed". G. W. Pabs ... Read more
Pandora's Box is a 1904 play by the German dramatist Frank Wedekind. It forms the second part of his pairing of 'Lulu' plays, the first being Earth Spirit (1895), both of which depict a society "riven by the demands of lust and greed". G. W. Pabst directed a silent film version Pandora's Box (1929), which was loosely based on the play. Both plays together also formed the basis for the opera Lulu by Alban Berg in 1935 (premiered posthumously in 1937). Less

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File size84.53 KB
Print pages88
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2015-08-12
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1176390782
Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (July 24, 1864 – March 9, 1918) was a German playwright. His work which often criticizes bourgeois attitudes (particularly towards sex), is considered to anticipate expres...

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