{"product_id":"9781934255414","title":"Earth Spirit (Erdgeist) - A Tragedy in Four Acts (Lulu Part 1)","description":"\"Earth Spirit\" (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\". In German folklore an erdgeist is a gnome, first described in Goethe's Faust (1808).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTogether with \"Pandora's Box\", Wedekind's play formed the basis for the silent film Pandora's Box (1929) starring Louise Brooks, and the opera \"Lulu\" by Alban Berg in 1935 (premiered posthumously in 1937).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the original manuscript, dating from 1894, the 'Lulu' drama was in five acts and subtitled 'A Monster Tragedy'. Wedekind subsequently divided the work into two plays: Earth Spirit and Pandora's Box.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe premiere of \"Earth Spirit\" took place in 1898, in a production by Carl Heine, with Wedekind himself in the role of Dr Schön. Wedekind is known to have taken his inspiration from at least two sources: the pantomime Lulu by Félicien Champsaur, which he saw in Paris in the early 1890s, and the sex murders of Jack the Ripper in London in 1888.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlso available in this restored, uncensored series:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Pandora's Box - A Tragedy in Three Acts - Uncensored Edition\"","brand":"El Paso Norte Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47151700410608,"sku":"9781934255414","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781934255414_p0.jpg?v=1763641455","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781934255414","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}