Strindberg Plays: 1: The Father; Miss Julie; The Ghost SonataThis 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). |
Contents
Johan August Strindberg Chronology page | 7 |
Introduction to Miss Julie | 81 |
Introduction to The Ghost Sonata | 149 |
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