Earth Spirit (play)

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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".[1] In German folklore an erdgeist is a gnome, first described in Goethe's Faust (1808). Wedekind's play formed the basis for an opera by Alban Berg (Lulu) in 1937.


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[edit] Works cited

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

[edit] References

  1. ^ See the article "Frank Wedekind" in Banham (1998, 1189-1190).
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