La ronde
By: Arthur Schnitzler ; in a new translation by Nicholas Rudall
Contributors: Rudall, Nicholas
Series: Plays for performance
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 118
ISBN-13: 9781566638463
Work titles: Reigen
Description: "First published for private circulation in Vienna in 1900, Arthur Schnitzler's famous play looks at the sexual morality and class ideology of his day through a series of sexual encounters between pairs of characters. When published publicly in 1903, it became an immediate best-seller, scandalized Viennese society, and a year later was censored. Schnitzler was accused of pornography and worse. In 1922 Freud wrote to him that "you have learned through intuition - though actually as a result of sensitive introspection - everything that I have had to unearth by laborious work on other persons." By choosing characters across the social spectrum, La Ronde offers a powerful view of how sexual contact transgresses boundaries of class. Nicholas Rudall's new translation sensitively captures the language distinctions of the representative characters in the play while providing a remarkably playable script."--Jacket.