Ebook: Spring Awakening

Cover; Title Page; Contents; Introductions by Edward Bond 2009; 1974; A Note on the Play by Elisabeth Bond-Pablé; A Note on the Language by Edward Bond; The Plot; Commentary; The historical context of Spring Awakening; Structure and setting; Characterisation and language; Principal characters; Individuals and types; The teachers; The children; Themes; Gender and sexuality; Education; Generational conflict; Comedy and tragedy; Naturalism and Expressionism; Intertexts; Freud; Goethe's Faust; Spring Awakening on the stage; Censorship; Early productions; Post-war productions.;A Student Edition of Wedekind's classic 1891 expressionist play aboutadolescent sexuality. Wedekind's notorious play Spring Awakening influenced a whole trend of modern drama and remains relevant to today's society, exploring theoppression and rebellionof adolescents among draconian parents and morals. This seminal work looks at the conflict between repressive adulthood and teenage sexual longings in a provincial German town. Highly controversial and with themes of sexuality, social attitudesand adolescence, the play is a popular and provocative text for study, especially at undergraduate level.