This version of Frank Wedekind's extraordinary play Spring Awakening was specially commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company. The themes it addresses and the sheer energy of the writing make this masterpiece of German symbolism startlingly relevant today.With its scenes of pubescent angst, sexual outspokenness, rape and homosexuality, the play still, more than one hundred years after it was first staged, has the power to shock. Ted Hughes's rendition lends the dialogue a particularly modern terseness and bite, drawing out all the erotic energy of the original.
- ISBN13 9780571177912
- Publish Date 7 August 1995
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 4 August 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Paperback
- Pages 96
- Language English