Strindberg Plays: 1: 1: The Father; Miss Julie; The Ghost Sonata: v.1 (World Classics) - Softcover

Strindberg, August

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0413521605 ISBN 13: 9780413521606

Verlag: Methuen Drama, 1983

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Book by August Strindberg

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Reseña del editor:

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)

Biografía del autor:

August Strindberg (1849-1912) was born in Stockholm and began writing plays in 1869. He is considered the "father" of modern Swedish literature and was an important precursor to both expressionism and surrealism. His first major play was Master Olof, written in 1872 but not performed for nine years. His other plays include The Red Room (1879), The Father (1887), Miss Julie (1888), Inferno (1897), To Damascus (1898), A Dream Play (1902) and The Ghost Sonata (1908). He died on 14 May 1912 at the age of 63.

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• Verlag: Methuen Drama
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0413521605
• ISBN 13: 9780413521606
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 194