STRINDBERG PLAYS: 1 (THE FATHER MISS JULIE THE GHOST SONATA) – SPECIAL OFFER PB B FORMAT – AUGUST STRINDBERG-MICHAEL MEYER

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)