TY - BOOK AU - Strindberg,August AU - Meyer,Michael Leverson AU - Strindberg,August AU - Strindberg,August AU - Strindberg,August TI - Plays, one: the father ; Miss Julie ; The ghost sonata SN - 0413521605 AV - PT9811.A3 S77 1991 PY - 2013/// CY - London, New York PB - Bloomsbury Methuen Drama N1 - "First published as a Methuen paperback in this revised edition by Eyre Methuen Ltd 1976."; The father -- Miss Julie -- The ghost sonata N2 - 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) ER -