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Plays 1: The Father / Miss Julie / The Ghost Sonata

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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' ; Miss Julie , 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 , written in physical pain and spiritual torment, which is a phantasmagoric dream play, 'a direct source for the Theatre of the Absurd' ."Michael Meyer is the translator most actors turn to when seeking a definitive text"

Language: English

Pages: 192

Format: Paperback

Release: January 01, 1964

ISBN 13: 9780413521606

Plays 1: The Father / Miss Julie / The Ghost Sonata

0/5 ( ratings)

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' ; Miss Julie , 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 , written in physical pain and spiritual torment, which is a phantasmagoric dream play, 'a direct source for the Theatre of the Absurd' ."Michael Meyer is the translator most actors turn to when seeking a definitive text"

Language: English

Pages: 192

Format: Paperback

Release: January 01, 1964

ISBN 13: 9780413521606

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