This volume contains three of Strindberg's most famous plays, spanning twenty years of prodigious creativity and recurrent personal crises: The Father, which displays Strindberg's suspicion of women at its most implacable, 'powerful and profound' (Guy de Maupassant); Miss Julie (1888), which he called his masterpiece, and in which he presents with startling modernity the conflict between sexual passion and social position; and The Ghost Sonata (1907), written in physical pain and spiritual torment, which is a phantasmagoric dream play, 'a direct source for the Theatre of the Absurd' (Martin Esslin)."Michael Meyer is the translator most actors turn to when seeking a definitive text" (Sunday Times)
ISBN: | 9780413521606 |
Publication date: | 10th March 1983 |
Author: | August Strindberg |
Publisher: | Methuen Drama an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 192 pages |
Series: | World Classics |
Genres: |
Plays, playscripts |