Erdgeist (Earth-Spirit): A Tragedy in Four Acts

Name: Erdgeist (Earth-Spirit): A Tragedy in Four Acts
Author: Frank Wedekind

by Frank Wedekind

EN·~2 hours

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Description

First published in: The Glebe 1914/10 (Vol. 2, No. 3).

Details

Language

Duration

~2 hours (118K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Michael Roe, Alexander Bauer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2009-08-13

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Tragedies German drama -- Translations into English

About the author

Frank Wedekind

1864–1918

Best known for the provocative plays Spring Awakening and the Lulu dramas, this German writer pushed against the moral rules of his time with wit, anger, and theatrical flair. His work helped open the way to modern drama by tackling desire, hypocrisy, and social control head-on.

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