Pandora's Box (play)

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Pandora's Box (1904) (Die Büchse der Pandora) is a play by the German dramatist Frank Wedekind. It forms the second part of his pairing of 'Lulu' plays (the first is Earth Spirit [1895]), both of which depict a society "riven by the demands of lust and greed".[1]

G W Pabst directed a silent film version (Pandora's Box), which was loosely based on the play, in 1929. The play also 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).