First published for private circulation in Vienna in 1900 Arthur Schnitzlers famous play looks at the sexual morality and class ideology of his day through a series of sexual encounters between pairs of characters. When published publicly in 1903 it became an immediate bestseller scandalized Viennese society and a year later was censored. Schnitzler was accused of pornography and worse. In 1922 Freud wrote to him that you have learned through intuitionthough actually as a result of sensitive introspectioneverything that I have had to unearth by laborious work on other persons. By choosing characters across the social spectrum La Ronde offers a powerful view of how sexual transgresses boundaries of class. Nicholas Rudalls new translation sensitively captures the language distinctions of the representative characters in the play while providing a remarkably playable script. New in the Plays for Performance series.