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Title: Strindberg: Five Plays by August Strindberg, Harry G. Carlson ISBN: 0-520-04698-6 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: August, 1983 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: "Since dreams are more often painful than happy..."
Comment: In the author's introduction to "A Dream Play", Strindberg focuses on what he sees as the real nature of dreams-- disconnected and painful, with their own strange logic. I think he captures something of that feeling in all of the five plays in this collection, even given that some of his plays come more explicitly from his symbolic works.
In this collection, the reader is presented with the classic Strindberg themes-- the emancipated woman, rebellion, religious symbolism, and always in every way the search for meaning.
_The Father_ pits a man and woman against each other in a destructive effort to control their daughter's destiny.
_Miss Julie_ depicts the seduction and discard of a silly young girl who is harshly confronted with the basic coldness of life.
_Dance of Death_ is a grim look at a marriage based on hatred, as an ex-actress and an army captain are stuck together on an isolated island.
In _A Dream Play_ Indra's daughter is sent to earth to live as best as she can among mortals.
_The Ghost Sonata_ explores dream logic in three movements. A meditation on the difference between just and proper.
A decent translation, at least I didn't trip over it as awkward. A sad and dislocating book to read, and rare in that it's worth reading as literature without needing to consider its staging to see its value.
Rating: 5
Summary: the best introduction to Strindberg's world
Comment: This is a pretty decent translation and an outstanding point of departure for Strindberg's strange, strange dramatic world. I speak and read Swedish and have studied Strindberg in some depth, but I still find this an evocative and stimulating collection.
Rating: 5
Summary: Ghost Sonata: beautiful and haunting
Comment: The Ghost Sonata is one of the most beautiful and haunting works I have ever experienced.
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Title: Four Major Plays: A Doll House, the Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler, the Master Builder by Henrik Johan Ibsen, Rolf Fjelde ISBN: 0451524063 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: September, 1989 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: The Ubu Plays by Alfred Jarry, Simon W. Taylor, Cyrill Connolly ISBN: 0802150101 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: December, 1988 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Five Plays: Ivanov, the Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and the Cherry Orchard (OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS) by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Ronald Hingley ISBN: 0192834126 Publisher: Anvil Press Poetry Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Naked Masks: Five Plays by Luigi Pirandello, Eric Bentley ISBN: 0452010829 Publisher: E P Dutton Pub. Date: September, 1957 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Anna Christie, The Emperor Jones, The Hairy Ape by Eugene O'Neill ISBN: 0679763953 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 31 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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