Re-reading Wedekind
Abstract
Historiographical tradition gives us a circus-like, provocative image of Wedekind, painting him as a light-weight literary figure. Observing Wedekind in the materiality of his action and his biography means, instead, fully understanding the weight of adopted theatrical solutions and the relationship between the figures of dramas and the literary hypothesis which sustains them. It is the works of the 90’s (that is, before Wedekind became famous) which supply the most radical solutions to the investigation.