Earth Spirit (play)

Earth Spirit (play)

"Earth Spirit" (1895) ("Erdgeist") is a play by the German dramatist Frank Wedekind. It forms the first part of his pairing of 'Lulu' plays (the second is "Pandora's Box" [1904] ), both of which depict a society "riven by the demands of lust and greed".See the article "Frank Wedekind" in Banham (1998, 1189-1190).] In German folklore an "erdgeist" is a gnome, first described in Goethe's "Faust" (1808). Together with "Pandora's Box", Wedekind's play formed the basis for the opera "Lulu" by Alban Berg in 1935 (premiered posthumously in 1937).

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Works cited

* Banham, Martin, ed. 1998. "The Cambridge Guide to Theatre." Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521434378.


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