Spring Awakening
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The NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography, key dates and suggestions for further reading) and the complete text, uncluttered with footnotes. The translations, by leading experts in the field, are accurate and above all actable. The editions of English-language plays include a glossary of unusual words and phrases to aid understanding.
Frank Wedekind's famously banned German play, Spring Awakening, was written in 1891 and focuses on a group of classmates and explores adolescent sexuality and the emotional consequences if suppressed.
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Wedekind: Key Dates
- For Further Reading
- Translator's Note
- Dedication
- Characters
- Spring Awakening
- Act One
- Scene One
- Scene Two
- Scene Three
- Scene Four
- Scene Five
- Act Two
- Scene One
- Scene Two
- Scene Three
- Scene Four
- Scene Five
- Scene Six
- Scene Seven
- Act Three
- Scene One
- Scene Two
- Scene Three
- Scene Four
- Scene Five
- Scene Six
- Scene Seven
- Notes on this Translation
- Textual Cuts
- Structural Changes in Performance
- Copyright and Performing Rights Information
