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The Awakening of Spring - A Tragedy of Childhood - cover

The Awakening of Spring - A Tragedy of Childhood

Frank Wedekind

Translator Francis J. Ziegler

Publisher: Good Press

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The Awakening of Spring is a play by Frank Wedekind. Wedekind was a German playwright, here shocking the audience with themes of suicide, vicious and masochistic performances, teen sex, murder, sulking, onanism and despair. Excerpt: "Leave that window shut likewise! I, for my part, am of the opinion that the air here leaves nothing to be desired!——Has any gentleman anything further to remark?——Let us suppose that we omitted to move the expulsion of our guilty pupil before the National Board of Education, then the National Board of Education would hold us responsible for the misfortune which has overwhelmed us. Of the various grammar schools visited by the epidemic of self-murder, those in which the devastation of self-murder has reached 25 per cent. have been closed by the National Board of Education. It is our duty, as the guardians and protectors of our institute, to protect our institute from this staggering blow. It grieves us deeply, gentlemen, that we are not in a position to consider the other qualifications of our guilt-laden pupil as mitigating circumstances. An indulgent treatment, which would allow our guilty pupil to be vindicated, would not in any conceivable way imaginable vindicate the present imperiled existence of our institute. We see ourselves under the necessity of judging the guilt-laden that we may not be judged guilty ourselves.——Habebald!"
Available since: 11/19/2019.
Print length: 158 pages.

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