Plays, one : the father ; Miss Julie ; The ghost sonata / August Strindberg ; translated from the Swedish with introductions by Michael Meyer.

By:

Strindberg, August, 1849-1912

Contributor(s):

Meyer, Michael Leverson [trl]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Swedish Publication details: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2013.Description: 191 pages ; 18 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0413521605
9780413521606

Contained works:

Strindberg, August, 1849-1912. Fadren. English
Strindberg, August, 1849-1912. Fröken Julie. English
Strindberg, August, 1849-1912. Spöksonaten. English

LOC classification:

PT9811.A3 S77 1991

Contents:

The father -- Miss Julie -- The ghost sonata.

Summary: 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' (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). "Michael Meyer is the translator most actors turn to when seeking a definitive text" (Sunday Times)

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
Plays	Executive Office - 2nd Floor General Collection	839.726 ST.P 1991 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not For Loan	0003859

"First published as a Methuen paperback in this revised edition by Eyre Methuen Ltd 1976."

The father -- Miss Julie -- The ghost sonata.

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' (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). "Michael Meyer is the translator most actors turn to when seeking a definitive text" (Sunday Times)

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