What is the title of Frank Wedekind’s 1904 play that follows Earth Spirit?

Pandora’s Box is the title of Frank Wedekind’s 1904 play that follows Earth Spirit.

The play is the second part of Wedekind’s Lulu drama. Its predecessor, Earth Spirit, was first performed in 1895, while Pandora’s Box was first performed in 1904. Both plays focus on Lulu and the destructive social pressures surrounding her relationships.

Wedekind’s work challenged the moral conventions of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century German theater. Pandora’s Box was controversial and was subject to censorship, but it later became influential in drama, cinema, and opera.

The play’s title alludes to the ancient Greek myth without retelling it directly. Lulu functions as a modern symbolic figure whose beauty and sexuality expose corruption and hypocrisy. G. W. Pabst adapted the material into his 1929 film, which also starred Louise Brooks as Lulu.