Strindberg Plays: 3: Master Olof; Creditors; To Damascus: Plays Three: v. 3 (World Classics) - Softcover

Strindberg, August

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0413648400 ISBN 13: 9780413648402

Publisher: Methuen Drama, 1991

Synopsis

The third volume in the series of authoritative Methuen editions of Strindberg's Collected Plays

This volume brings together Strindberg's first great play, Master Olof (1872): 'Michael Meyer's agile translation of a flawed idealist who shrinks from the logic of his own actions and puts compromise before martyrdom' (Guardian); Creditors (1888), portraying a marriage chillingly close to his own: 'one of the finest of his plays . . . holds one in its icy grip' (Sunday Telegraph); and To Damascus (Part I) (1898), 'a play so packed with ideas and invective that it makes most contemporary dramas seem trivial' (Scotsman). "Michael Meyer is the translator most actors turn to when seeking a definitive text" (Sunday Times)

About this title

About the Author:

August Strindberg (1849-1912) is now seen as a pioneer of twentieth-century theatre and one of the world's great dramatists. During his lifetime, his obsessional treatments of insanity, sexual domination and the psychological warfare between men and women provoked incomprehension and abhorrence; today, his plays have taken on a new relevance and directness.

Synopsis:

The major points of Strindberg's so-called mystical period rounds off the collection that began with Volumes One and Two.

About this edition

• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0413648400
• ISBN 13: 9780413648402
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 286