Wedekind was one of the most important German playwrights of the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries, who had a great influence on Bertolt Brecht and others. Fruhlings Erwachen is one of his most powerful and controversial plays. Its theme of the clash of awakening sexuality with the strict customs of German society of the time was a very sensitive subject and the play caused uproar when first performed.
This edition of this important work is excellent. It is properly laid out, with a good interactive table of contents, and very easy to read and to search. It has no footnotes or academic commentary, but then it is hardly reasonable to expect these in a free edition.