Who wrote the 1904 play Pandora's Box, part of Frank Wedekind's Lulu cycle?

Frank Wedekind wrote the 1904 play Pandora’s Box, the second major play in his Lulu cycle.

Wedekind’s Pandora’s Box continues the story of Lulu, a sexually independent and socially disruptive character first presented in Earth Spirit. The two plays were later treated together in adaptations, including the opera Lulu and the 1929 film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst. The title invokes Pandora as a cultural symbol of danger unleashed, rather than reproducing the ancient Greek plot.

The play belongs to the German-language theater of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Wedekind’s treatment challenged conventional ideas about sexuality, morality, and gender, which contributed to controversy around the work. Modern readers may encounter Lulu through the combined title Lulu, but Pandora’s Box is specifically the second play of the original dramatic cycle.