Three of Strindberg's most famous plays, including Miss Julia, the basis for the major motion picture Miss Julie, starring Jessica Chastain and Colin Farrell The 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 Julia 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 mom is brought to madness and driven out of his home by the suspicion...
Three of Strindberg's most famous plays, including Miss Julia, the basis for the major motion picture Miss Julie, starring Jessica Ch...
The authoritative translation by Arvid Paulson reproduces the original s variations of tone, now colloquial and almost comedic, now of tragic eloquence. An introduction by Daniel Seltzer discusses Strindberg s dramatic methods, places the play in the context of his work, and assesses his influence on the playwrights of today. The translator s performance notes summarize The Dance of Death s stage history."
The authoritative translation by Arvid Paulson reproduces the original s variations of tone, now colloquial and almost comedic, now of tragic eloquenc...
The second volume in the series of authoritative Methuen editions of Strindberg's Collected Plays
This volume contains two of Strindberg's best-known plays from the years following his mental breakdown: the expressionist masterpiece A Dream Play (1901), which he described as 'my most beloved play, child of my greatest pain'; and both parts of The Dance of Death (1900), a terrifying analysis of a tormented marriage: 'it leaves an astonishing, an almost unaccountable, impression of genius ... as a beggar's cloak full of holes may have a kind of majestic beauty when the wind fills it,...
The second volume in the series of authoritative Methuen editions of Strindberg's Collected Plays
Strindberg's most important and most frequently performed playsThe Father, Miss Julie, A Dream Play, The Dance of Death, and The Ghost Sonataare gathered together here in translations praised for their fluency and their elegance."
Strindberg's most important and most frequently performed playsThe Father, Miss Julie, A Dream Play, The Dance of Death, and The Ghost Sonat...
This is the first fully edited translation of a series of essays by the great Swedish dramatist August Strindberg. The essays, edited and translated by Michael Robinson, have been selected for the light they shed, both directly and indirectly, on Strindberg's contribution to the European theater, first in such masterpieces of psychological realism as The Father and Miss Julie, and subsequently in those works, including A Dream Play and The Ghost Sonata, with which he largely established a basis for theatrical modernism.
This is the first fully edited translation of a series of essays by the great Swedish dramatist August Strindberg. The essays, edited and translated b...
Frank McGuinness presents scintillating new versions of two of August Strindberg's plays -- one a major work, the other less well known. Miss Julie is Strindberg's examination of power, sex, and class, set on a midsummer's eve in a nobleman's house and focusing on the shifting relationship between Miss Julie, the daughter of the house, and Jean, her father's manservant. The Stronger is a short play that explores the complex range of emotions felt by Madame X when she encounters Mademoiselle Y, her husband's former mistress, at a fashionable cafe. Calling Mademoiselle Y worn...
Frank McGuinness presents scintillating new versions of two of August Strindberg's plays -- one a major work, the other less well known. Miss Ju...
The Roofing Ceremony is a powerful, ultimately hopeful short novel that will revise the narrow view of August Strindberg as merely a misogynist and the gloomiest of Scandinavian writers. This novel has an inwardness, irreducibly and complexly human, that looks back to Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich and forward to Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape.
Published in Sweden in 1906 and never before translated into English, The Roofing Ceremony (Taklagsol) anticipates in its turbulent intensity the chamber plays Strindberg was soon to write. It is about a dying man, once an...
The Roofing Ceremony is a powerful, ultimately hopeful short novel that will revise the narrow view of August Strindberg as merely a misogynist...
Together in this volume are two plays by the Scandinavian geniuses of modern drama, which focus on a single theme-the reality of death. Translated and edited by Thaddeus L. Torp, this edition contains both August Strindberg's Ghost Sonata and Henrik Ibsen's When We Dead Awaken for performance and study and includes an introduction, a chronology of principal works and important events in the authors' lives, and a bibliography.
Together in this volume are two plays by the Scandinavian geniuses of modern drama, which focus on a single theme-the reality of death. Translated ...
By far Strindberg's most aggressive work, The Father is a feverish nightmare of the struggle he saw between defiant masculinity and the "treacherous weakness" of woman. Mr. Brustein's adaptation takes account of modern feminist sensibilities without diminishing the play's relentless power and furious conclusion.
By far Strindberg's most aggressive work, The Father is a feverish nightmare of the struggle he saw between defiant masculinity and the "treacherous w...
The mortal conflict of the sexes, traced here by Strindberg in the clash between an aristocratic young woman and her valet. Ms. Stockenstrom's new translation retains the rhythm and emotional feel of the original while making the prose more playable for today's audiences.
The mortal conflict of the sexes, traced here by Strindberg in the clash between an aristocratic young woman and her valet. Ms. Stockenstrom's new tra...
