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August Strindberg
1) Miss Julie
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In Miss Julie, a willful young aristocrat, whose perverse nature has already driven her fiancé to break off their engagement, pursues and effectively seduces her father's valet during the course of a Midsummer's Eve celebration. The progress of that seduction and the play's stunning denouement shocked Swedish audiences who first attended the play in 1889. Despite its controversial debut, this now-classic drama, inspired by the new ideas of naturalism...
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This collection of plays by Swedish playwright and writer, August Strindberg, are a testimony to his title as "the father of modern literature" in Sweden, as well as to his distinction as one of the most important playwrights of the 20th century. Beginning with two of his popular, early plays, "The Father" and "Miss Julie," this edition explores Strindberg's crucial transition from Naturalism to Modernism, concluding with "The Dance of Death," "A...
3) Plays by August Strindberg: There Are Crimes and Crimes; Miss Julia; The Stronger; Creditors; Pariah
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This book contains five plays by Johan Strindberg, including 'There Are Crimes and Crimes', 'Miss Julie', 'The Stronger', 'Creditors', and 'Pariah'. Johan August Strindberg (1849 – 1912) was a Swedish novelist, playwright, poet, and essayist. Contents include: 'Introduction To "There Are Crimes And Crimes', 'There Are Crimes And Crimes', 'Introduction To "Miss Julia"', 'Author's Preface', 'Miss Julia', 'Introduction To "The Stronger"', 'The Stronger',...
4) Creditors
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"Creditors" is a tragicomedy, written by a famous Swedish writer and playwright August Strindberg (Swedish: Johan August Strindberg, 1849-1912). An artist Adolph suffers from misunderstanding with his beloved wife Tekla. While she is out of town, he is, acquainted with a traveler Gustav, who becomes his only friend. Adolph opens his heart to Gustav about his relations with wife, but he doesn`t know that Gustav is her first husband.
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August Strindberg's classic trilogy of plays entitled To Damascus (also known as The Road to Damascus) is known as his greatest work. A very complex and thought provoking play series, it follows the conversations between two characters: the Stranger and the Lady. An excerpt from the Introduction: The Road to Damascus might be termed a marriage drama, a mystery drama, or a drama of penance and conversion, according as preponderance is given to one...
6) The Father
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Many experiences in the personal life of dramatist August Strindberg involved duels between the sexes, with ruthless, aggressive women usurping the supposedly male prerogatives of decision-making and leadership. Strindberg explores this theme in depth in The Father ― a highly emotional study of marital upheaval and a no-holds-barred struggle between man and woman. One of Strindberg's best works, the stage play remains one of the most gripping psychological...
7) The Red Room
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This nineteenth-century Swedish classic that satirizes Stockholm society is "a scathing attack on every aspect of modern life" (Rosalind Porter, The Guardian, "1000 Novels Everyone Must Read").
Disillusioned with chasing such meaningless achievements as wealth and influence, Arvid Falk leaves his career as a civil servant to embark on a life of artistic pursuits. He longs for the freedom that becoming a writer will offer him, much to the chagrin...
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August Strindberg is considered the father of modern Swedish literature. Here are collected three of his finest plays, written during what he called his 'Inferno period', a period just following a series of psychotic episodes, they are full of wild imagery, intense and powerful characters and touch on realism and naturalism in a groundbreaking way for the time. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are...
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August Strindberg (1849-1912) has been referred to as "the father of modern literature" in Sweden, and has earned the distinction of one of the most important playwrights of the 20th century. As an author unafraid of exploring new possibilities in dramatic fiction, Strindberg is noted for his psychological realism, blatant misogyny, symbolism, and his utterly fluid and subjective sequences of events. His works bore intense scrutiny in their time,...
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Die Gespenstersonate August Strindberg - "Die Gespenstersonate ist ein Kammerspiel von Johan August Strindberg, das er am 21. Januar 1908 im 'Intima teatern', das er im Jahr davor, zusammen mit dem Schauspieler August Falck, gegründet hatte, uraufführt. Die Uraufführung floppt und das Stück wird erst vier Jahre nach dem Tod des Autors durch die spektakuläre Berliner Inszenierung von Max Reinhardt im Jahr 1916 zum Erfolg.
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11) Mr. Bengt's Wife
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Mr. Bengt's Wife is the passionate story of Margit, an orphan and rebellious novice who breaks her convent vows to marry her "Knight", Lord Bengt, a wealthy landowner. Her husband's fortunes soon dwindle, and she seeks her freedom from her approaching poverty. As her marriage dissolves. she is hotly pursued by the convent Priest, and a childhood friend who is now the Bailiff of the town. Her love/hate relationship with Bengt also continues, adding...
12) Plays
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Plays features "There are Crimes and Crimes," a play about intoxication and failure, which the author said was his triumph after a crisis at age fifty, and "Miss Julia," a complex work about power in all its forms-including love. Also included are "The Stronger," "Creditors," and "Pariah."
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Against a glittering jazz-age backdrop, mistress of the house Julie and ambitious servant John face off in a gripping, night-long encounter. As the balance of power shifts often and dangerously--sometimes with exquisite subtlety, sometimes stark brutality--LaBute masterfully reinterprets Strindberg's timeless erotic struggle between a man and a woman. This thrilling, essential Miss Julie, which had its world premiere at the Geffen Playhouse in 2013...
