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Strindberg

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This collection brings together August Strindberg's most important and frequently performed plays: The Father, Miss Julie, A Dream Play, The Dance of Death, and The Ghost Sonata. Each play explores intense human emotions and complex relationships through innovative drama and powerful dialogue.
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Ideal for readers interested in classic theatre, Scandinavian literature, and dramatic arts. Suitable for students, scholars, and fans of influential European playwrights.

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Strindberg's most important and most frequently performed plays - "The Father", "Miss Julie", "A Dream Play", "The Dance of Death", and "The Ghost Sonata" - are gathered together here in translations praised for their fluency and their elegance.

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Strindberg's most important and most frequently performed plays—The Father, Miss Julie, A Dream Play, The Dance of Death, and The Ghost Sonata—are gathered together here in translations praised for their fluency and their elegance.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780520046986

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 21 July 1983

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Illustration: No Illustrations

Contributors:

  • Translated by Harry G. Carlson
  • Introduction by Harry G. Carlson

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 408g

Pages: 297

About the Author

Harry G. Carlson teaches Drama and Theatre at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He has written widely on Swedish drama and theatre and has been honored in Sweden for his books, Strindberg and the Poetry of Myth (California, 1982) and Out of Inferno: Strindberg's Reawakening as an Artist (1996), play translations and critical essays.

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