The Awakening of Spring: A Tragedy of Childhood

A 1910 translation of notable modernist play “Frühlings Erwachen” by Frank Wedekind, which criticized the repressive sexual culture in Europe in the nineteenth century. From the preface: “It is a tragedy of frightful import, and its action is concerned with the development of natural instincts in the adolescent of both sexes.” Translated from the German by Francis J. Ziegler.