Spring Awakening: A Play [Lingua inglese] - Brossura

WEDEKIND, FRANK

 
9780865479784: Spring Awakening: A Play [Lingua inglese]
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ISBN 10: 086547978X ISBN 13: 9780865479784
Casa editrice: FSG Adult, 2007

Sinossi

First performed in Germany in 1906, Frank Wedekind's controversial play Spring Awakening closed after one night in New York in 1917 amid charges of obscenity and public outrage. For the better part of the twentieth century Wedekind's intense body of work was largely unpublished and rarely performed. Yet the play's subject matterteenage desire, suicide, abortion, and homosexualityis as explosive and important today as it was acentury ago. Spring Awakening follows the lives of three teenagers, Melchior, Moritz, and Wendl, as they navigate their entry into sexual awareness. Unlike so many works that claim to tell the truth of adolescence, Spring Awakening offers no easy answersor redemption.

Today, one hundred years after the play's first performance, a new musical version of this essential modern masterpiece is being hailed as the "best new musical . . . in a generation" (John Heilpern, The New York Observer). Franzen's version of the textfor so long poorly served in Englishis unique in capturing the bizarre and inimitable comic spirit that animates almost every line of this unrelentingly tragic play. There couldn't be a better time for this thrilling, definitive new translation.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Jonathan Franzen is the author of The Corrections, winner of the National Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Pen/Faulkner. He is also the author of Freedom, selected for Oprah's Book Club, The Twenty-Seventh City and Strong Motion, and two works of nonfiction, How to Be Alone and The Discomfort Zone, all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. In 1996, he was named one of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists. He lives in New York City and Santa Cruz, California.

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Editore
FSG Adult
Data di pubblicazione
2007
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
086547978X
ISBN 13 
9780865479784
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
112
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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