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Such Is Life: A Play in Five Acts

By Frank Wedekind

2019-06-12 01:24:56

(Steps from their midst.) Fellow-citizens!—The byways of Perugia are strewn with the corpses of our children and our brothers. Many of you have a pious wish to give your beloved dead a fitting resting place.—Fellow-citizens! First we must fulfill ... Read more
(Steps from their midst.) Fellow-citizens!—The byways of Perugia are strewn with the corpses of our children and our brothers. Many of you have a pious wish to give your beloved dead a fitting resting place.—Fellow-citizens! First we must fulfill a higher duty. Let us do our part as quickly as possible, so that the dead shall have perished, not solely for their bravery, but for the lasting welfare of their native-land! Let us seize the moment! Let us give our state a constitution which, in future, will protect her children from the assassin's weapons and insure her citizens the just reward of their labors! Less

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File size210.63 KB
Print pages56
PublisherPublic Domain Books
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1530287284
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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