Which author wrote the play Pandora’s Box, first staged in 1904?

Frank Wedekind wrote the play Pandora’s Box, first staged in 1904. The German drama is the second part of Wedekind’s Lulu cycle, following Earth Spirit.

The play centers on Lulu, a provocative figure whose relationships and social position drive the tragedy. Its title echoes the Pandora myth, but Lulu is not the ancient Greek Pandora and the drama does not reproduce Hesiod’s narrative. Wedekind uses the mythic image to suggest destructive desire, social scandal and consequences that spread beyond their apparent source.

Wedekind’s Lulu plays later became the basis for major adaptations, including G. W. Pabst’s 1929 film Pandora’s Box and Alban Berg’s opera Lulu. The connection explains why the title appears in film, theatre and opera histories even when the work being discussed is not a direct classical retelling.