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Wedekind
[ vey-duh-kint ]
noun
- Frank [f, r, ahngk], 1864鈥1918, German poet and dramatist.
Wedekind
/ 藞惫别藧诲蓹办瑟苍迟 /
noun
- WedekindFrank18641918MGermanTHEATRE: dramatist Frank. 1864鈥1918, German dramatist, whose plays, such as The Awakening of Spring (1891) and Pandora's Box (1904), bitterly satirize the sexual repressiveness of society
Example Sentences
Derived from Frank Wedekind鈥檚 play of the same title, Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik鈥檚 鈥淪pring Awakening鈥 is part concert, part drama, part secular mass.
鈥淒ecertification was never a factor in the lockout,鈥 Exxon attorney Eva Shih said in opening remarks to Administrative Law Judge Jeffrey Wedekind.
The 2006 Steven Sater musical, an adaptation of the Frank Wedekind play from the turn of the 20th century, is about German teenagers grappling with sexual desires, secret pain and parental pressure.
For example, they noticed that one spy circuit always started their messages with one of the following words: SUDAMERIAT, WEDEKIND, SUDAMERO, EGMARSUD.
As adapted from the 1891 Frank Wedekind play, the strait-laced period setting raised the stakes on the anguish of transgression, featuring sex, suicide and the emo touch of characters whipping out anachronistic microphones.
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