Spring Awakening: Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics)

The NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography, key dates and suggestions for further reading) and the complete text, uncluttered with footnotes. The translations, by leading experts in the field, are accurate and above all actable. The editions of English-language plays include a glossary of unusual words and phrases to aid understanding. Frank Wedekind's famously banned German play, Spring Awakening, was written in 1891 and focuses on a group of classmates and explores adolescent sexuality and the emotional consequences if suppressed.

© 2014 Nick Hern Books (Ebook): 9781780015231

Release date

Ebook: 4 December 2014