Miss Julie and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Strindberg, Johan August

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199538042 ISBN 13: 9780199538041

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2008

Synopsis

The Father; A Dream Play; Miss Julie; The Ghost Sonata; The Dance of Death

`Ibsen can sit serenely in his Doll's House,' Sean O'Casey remarked, `while Strindberg is battling with his heaven and his hell.'

Strindberg was one of the most extreme, and ultimately the most influential theatrical innovators of the late nineteenth century. The five plays translated here are those on which Strindberg's international reputation as a dramatist principally rests and this edition embraces his crucial transition from Naturalism to Modernism, from his two finest achievements as a psychological realist, The Father and Miss Julie, to the three plays in which he redefined the possibilities of European drama following his return to the theatre in 1898. Michael Robinson's highly performable translations are based on the authoritative texts of the new edition of Strindberg's collected works in Sweden and include the Preface to Miss Julie, Strindberg's manifesto of theatrical naturalism.

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About the Author

Michael Robinson is Professor of Scandinavian Studies at the University of East Anglia.

About this edition

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0199538042
• ISBN 13: 9780199538041
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368