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Spring Awakening
Paperback
$17.95
By Frank Wedekind, Joseph Prestwich (Editor), Jenny Stevens (Editor), Edward Bond (Translator), Chris Megson (Editor), Matthew Nichols (Editor), Sara Freeman (Editor)
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'[This translation by Edward Bond is] scrupulously faithful both to Wedekind's irony and his poetry'
THE TIMES
Written in 1891, Frank Wedekind's explosive play lays bare the brutal clash between adolescence and authority. Set in a stifling provincial German town, it exposes a world ruled by fear, hypocrisy and moral absolutism, where young people are denied knowledge, agency and compassion.
As repressive adults impose silence and shame, teenage curiosity and sexual longing erupt into confusion...
THE TIMES
Written in 1891, Frank Wedekind's explosive play lays bare the brutal clash between adolescence and authority. Set in a stifling provincial German town, it exposes a world ruled by fear, hypocrisy and moral absolutism, where young people are denied knowledge, agency and compassion.
As repressive adults impose silence and shame, teenage curiosity and sexual longing erupt into confusion...