Three Plays: The Father; Miss Julia; and Easter (Penguin Classics, L82) - Softcover

Strindberg, August

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140440828 ISBN 13: 9780140440829

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1975

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The three plays in this volume focus on the tumultuous relationships between men and women, whether they are father and daughter, brother and sister or lovers. Miss Julie is a ruthlessly realistic depiction of an upper class woman's seduction of a servant, emphasizing the differences and the antagonism between them. In The Father a man is brought to madness and driven out of his home by the suspicion that his daughter is not his own child, while Easter centres on a family in need of redemption for its sins and suffering, finding forgiveness at a season of rebirth. Strindberg's acute psychological analysis and his dramatization of naked emotion within a naturalistic domestic setting make him one of the great innovators of the modern theatre.

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August Strindberg, born in Stockholm in 1849, was the author of more than fifty plays, as well as novels, short stories, poems and an autobiography. Few of his earlier plays are remembered, but from the 1880s he began to write with great intensity. He died in 1912.
Peter Watts also translated Ghosts and Other Plays for the Penguin Classics. He died in 1972.

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Passionate and powerful, the three plays collected together in this volume represent August Strindburge (1849-1912) at his best, 'The Father', 'Miss Julia', and the more mystical 'Easter.' In all three plays, Strindberg combines acute psychological analysis with total mastery of the power to create unforgettable dramas of human life and love.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1975
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0140440828
• ISBN 13: 9780140440829
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176
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