Disciplines Literary Studies & Poetry European Literature

Strindberg Five Plays

by August Strindberg (Author), Harry G. Carlson (Translator), Harry G. Carlson (Introduction)
July 1983
First Edition
Paperback
$27.95, £23.00
Title Details

Rights: Available worldwide
Pages: 297
ISBN: 9780520046986
Trim Size: 6 x 9
Illustrations: No Illustrations

About the Book About the Author Table of Contents Related Books

About the Book

Strindberg's most important and most frequently performed plays—The Father, Miss Julie, A Dream Play, The Dance of Death, and The Ghost Sonata—are gathered together here in translations praised for their fluency and their elegance.

About the Author

Harry G. Carlson teaches Drama and Theatre at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He has written widely on Swedish drama and theatre and has been honored in Sweden for his books, Strindberg and the Poetry of Myth (California, 1982) and Out of Inferno: Strindberg's Reawakening as an Artist (1996), play translations and critical essays.

Introduction
Translator's Note and Acknowledgments
The Father (1887)
Miss Julie (1888)
The Dance of Death (1900), Part I
The Dance of Death (1900), Part II
A Dream Play (1901)
The Ghost Sonata (1907)