“At the beginning stands Wedekind.” So wrote German literary critic Rudolf Kayser in 1917 of the new forms of expressionist theater that were then becoming central to German culture. In Schloss Wetterstein (Castle Wetterstein), one of his most important plays, Wedekind offers a satirical take on marriage and the bourgeois nuclear family; at the play’s center is a rebellious teenage girl who turns to prostitution after her upbringing in an unstable household. The play was published in 1912, but a performance ban was put into effect immediately, and continued until after Wedekind’s death.
This new edition offers a fresh translation, an illuminating brief introduction, and a selection of background materials that help to set the play in context.
- ISBN10 1554814251
- ISBN13 9781554814251
- Publish Date 24 July 2019
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 12 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Broadview Press Ltd
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 114
- Language English