Publisher: Applause Books, softcover, 126 pages. Editor: Eric Bentley Author: Frank Wedekind Spring's Awakening is the first play by German playwright Frank Wedekind, published at his own expense in 1891. The play focuses on the budding sexual maturity of youths in what Wedekind considered to be a sexually repressed society at the time. The play was first performed in 1906 in Germany, and debuted in English in 1917. Due to the nature of its content, the play was frequently banned. The 1917 performance was almost shut d...