Erdgeist (Earth-Spirit): A Tragedy in Four Acts
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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" (1904), both of which depict a society "riven by the demands of lust and greed". In German folklore an erdgeist is a gnome, first described in Goethe's Faust (1808).Together with "Pandora's Box", Wedekind's play formed the basis for the silent film Pandora's Box (1929) starring Louise Brooks, and the opera "Lulu" by Alban Berg in 1935 (premiered posthumously in 1937).In the original manuscript, dating from 1894, the ‘Lulu’ drama was i...
Chapters (80)
- ERDGEIST
- CHARACTERS
- PROLOGUE
- ACT I
- ACT II
- ACT III
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