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A moralist who wore the mask of an immoralist, Wedekind was the terror of the German bourgeoisie. ... Read more

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Ahead of his Time
Ahead of his time, this Wedekind collection of plays show his mastery with the form of Theatre and psychology.The depth of his understanding of male/female relations in all its forms combined with exciting theatre (or even just as literature to be read) left me feeling that real wisdom, especially between (and of) the sexes, was imparted to me.And highly entertaining... ... Read more

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Merely Ok
This is an interesting historical curiosity in which a woman rules men with sex, but once she starts taking an active role she's hemmed in and destroyed. Somehow I expected a little more punch from this play. The version I saw turned it into a cabaret act, but the actual text is much less stimulating. In fact there are too many people standing around talking about the philosophical pains of sex.

It's interesting, but it doesn't feel like German expressionism. ... Read more

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The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: History / General; History / General; ... Read more

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The opposite of Shaw's My Fair Lady
That's the first of the two Lulu plays that are the models and sort of libretto of Alban Berg's eponymous opera, Lulu. This first play only follows Lulu through her social ascent up to the death of her third husband, Dr Schön Sr. She was picked up from the street at the age of twelve by that Dr Schön Sr., raised and educated into being a lady. But you cannot negate your original nature, Wedekind tells us on the model of Emile Zola's naturalism, and as opposed to Bernard Shaw's My Fair Lady. Lulu is married by her benefactor, first to an older man, Dr Goll, who dies of a heart attack when he discovers she is having an affair with the painter who is painting her portrait. Then Dr Schön Sr. marries her to the painter who makes a brilliant career thanks to the help of Dr Schön Sr. as a press editor in chief. But this painter commits suicide when Dr Schön Sr. tells him who she really is in order to make him look after his wife more closely. Then she starts a dancing career with Alva Schön in his theater. She is brilliant till the night when Doctor Schön Sr. comes to the show with his fiancée. She then faints onstage and afterwardsforces Dr Schön Sr. to write a breaking up letter to his fiancée and he will eventually marry her. Then Lulu goes on having intrigues more than affairs with men, all kinds of men, Alva of course, but also anyone young or old popping up. Is she a whore as she is accused of being, or just a woman who likes to be courted and wooed? From what we see we may think she is the second, though she encourages Alva's cooing and wooing, while her husband, his father, can see the scene. The father, her husband, comes with a gun and tries to force her to kill herself. She finally shoots him in the back with five bullets. And the end comes with the police ringing at the door. Her tragic fate is the consequence of a belief there is no possible change in someone's nature, hence Lulu was born in the gutter in the street and she will have to cause death and create drama, inflict devastation on the world around her. But each victim of her charm will go up in the seriousness of their violent ends: a heart attack, hence a death that is natural; a suicide, hence a death brought up by the victim himself; and finally a murder in self defense but entirely caused by an aggression she had caused herself. She is, at the end, a plain murderess even if in self defense attire. God bless the child, because she is a child.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University of Paris Dauphine, University of Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University of Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines.
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