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Erdgeist (Earth-Spirit)

Frank Wedekind

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Erdgeist (Earth-Spirit) | Frank Wedekind

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Earth Spirit (Erdgeist) is a play by the German dramatist Frank Wedekind. It forms the first part of his pairing of 'Lulu' plays (the second is Pandora's Box), both of which depict a society "riven by the demands of lust and greed". TThe eponymous "earth spirit" of this play is Lulu, who Wedekind described as a woman "created to stir up great disaster." Indeed, she is a purely sexual creature who scandalizes the community and drives men to ruin. The play has attracted a wide range of interpretations, from those who see it as misogynistic to those who claim Wedekind as a harbinger of women’s liberation.
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DR. GOLL. By his legs is the stage-poet known.

ALVA. Corticelli dances the youthful Buddha as tho she had seen the light of the world by the Ganges.

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musi 04/02/2024
DIOS MIO THE TEAAAAA IS BOILING
Christopher 11/03/2023
The English translation is only slightly less baffling than the German, and either will help to clarify what's happening in the first half of the famous silent film staring Louise Brooks.


From the beginning, the language is off-putting, starting with the pompous prologue in verse:

(A stage-hand with a
Iulia 02/06/2022
3.7*
Christine 12/27/2017
Surprisingly funny for a tragedy.
Jim 05/05/2017
When Frank Wedekind wrote his famous magnum opus, LULU, the play ran into many censorship problems and was infrequently produced. Oddly enough, although not many people saw it, the story became very famous (especially in Germany). In an effort to find a larger audience and reduce the censorship prob
Jen 10/04/2015
I... don't get existentialism at all.

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