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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. New in the Plays for Performance series.
| Published | Jan 16 2010 |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 128 |
| ISBN | 9781566638463 |
| Imprint | Ivan R. Dee |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Series | Plays for Performance Series |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
