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Title: Pandora's Box
A Tragedy in Three Acts

Author: Frank Wedekind

Translator: Samuel A. Eliot

Release Date: August 13, 2010 [EBook #33415]

Language: English

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PANDORA'S BOX

A TRAGEDY IN THREE ACTS
BY
FRANK WEDEKIND

Translated by Samuel A. Eliot, Jr.

[Illustration]

BONI AND LIVERIGHT
NEW YORK 1918

COPYRIGHT, 1914
BY
ALBERT AND CHARLES BONI

PANDORA'S BOX

LULU
BY FRANK WEDEKIND

ERDGEIST (EARTH-SPIRIT) $1.00
PANDORA'S BOX $1.00

CHARACTERS

LULU.
ALVA SCHOEN, _writer_.
SCHIGOLCH.
RODRIGO QUAST, _acrobat_.
ALFRED HUGENBERG, _escaped from a reform-school_.
COUNTESS GESCHWITZ.
BIANETTA. }
LUDMILLA STEINHERZ. }
MAGELONE. }
KADIDIA, _her daughter_. }
COUNT CASTI PIANI. } In Act II.
PUNTSCHU, _a banker_. }
HEILMANN, _a journalist_. }
BOB, _a groom_. }
A DETECTIVE. }
MR. HUNIDEI. }
KUNGU POTI, _imperial prince of Uahubee_. } In Act III.
DR. HILTI, _tutor_. }
JACK. }

ACT I

_The hall of EARTH-SPIRIT_, Act IV, _feebly lighted by an oil lamp on
the centre table. Even this is dimmed by a heavy shade. Lulu's
picture is gone from the easel, which still stands by the foot of the
stairs. The fire-screen and the chair by the ottoman are gone too.
Down left is a small