August Strindberg is one of the founders of the modern theater. George Bernard Shaw considered him -the only genuinely Shakespearian modern dramatist, - Sean O'Casey called him -the greatest of them all.- And to Eugene O'Neill he was -the greatest interpreter in the theater of the characteristic spiritual conflicts of our lives today.- Twelve Major Plays includes the most famous and most characteristic Strindberg plays.

This selection is particularly interesting in its depiction of the great range of Strindberg's moods and styles, from naturalism to expressionism, from...