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1	Miss Julie more books like this by August Strindberg add to wishlist In this fin de siecle parable of class tension and gender war, a wealthy woman engages a man on her staff in a summer's night of passion, including fights, sex, dreams for a shared future in which their social differences won't matter, and disillusionment when they realize how stuck in their lives they really are. This play was written in 1888. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Strindberg, Five Plays more books like this by August Strindberg add to wishlist A collection of Strindberg's most frequently performed plays: "The Father"; "Miss Julie"; "A Dream Play; "The Dance of Death"; and "The Ghost Sonata". These translations aim to capture the spirit of the original Swedish texts while embracing colloquial, spoken English. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.61! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Miss Julie & other plays more books like this by August Strindberg add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.50! \| SVS
4	The Father and a Dream Play more books like this by August Strindberg, Valborg Anderson (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.58! \| first editions
5	Three Plays more books like this by August Strindberg add to wishlist The three plays in this volume focus on the tumultuous relationships between men and women, whether they are father and daughter, brother and sister or lovers. "Miss Julie" is a ruthlessly realistic depiction of an upper class woman's seduction of a servant, emphasizing the differences and the antagonism between them. In "The Father", a man is ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Miss Julie and the Stronger: Two Plays more books like this by August Strindberg, Frank McGuinness add to wishlist Strindberg's "Miss Julie", a play on power, sex and class, is presented here in a new version by Frank McGuinness, togther with "The Stronger". see all copies from $4.40! new only from $8.08! \| SVS
7	The Dance of Death more books like this by August Strindberg, Stephen Mulrine (Translator) add to wishlist Alongside Tate Modern's big Strindberg Exhibition this Spring - his two most famous plays are published in the popular pocket-format Drama Classics series Recently revived in the West End with Ian McKellen and Frances de la Tour, The Dance of Death is Strindberg's chilling anatomy of a marriage - in which the two partners duel with each other ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.75! \| first editions \| SVS
8	World Historical Plays more books like this by August Strindberg, Arvid Paulson (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $7.16! first editions
9	Six Plays of Strindberg more books like this by August Strindberg add to wishlist This collection offers superb translations of the most famous plays of August Strindberg, one of the founders of the modern theater and the playwright Bernard Shaw considered "the only genuinely Shakespearean modern dramatist." It includes "The Father," "Miss Julie," "The Stranger," "A Dream Play, " "The Ghost Sonata," and "Easter." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $29.95! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Inferno; From an Occult Diary more books like this by August Strindberg, Mary Sandbach (Designer) add to wishlist "Inferno" and "From an Occult Diary" are for the most part based on a diary that Strindberg kept between 1896 and 1908 - undoubtedly the most troubled period of his life. see all copies from $24.95! new only from $107.25!
11	Ghost Sonata/When We Dead Awaken: A Dramatic Epilogue in Three Acts more books like this by August Strindberg, Henrik Johan Ibsen, Thaddeus L Torp (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.88!
12	The Confession of a Fool more books like this by August Strindberg, Ellie Schleussner add to wishlist see all copies from $19.99! new only from $19.99! \| first editions \| SVS
13	Strindberg Plays 1 more books like this by August Strindberg, Michael Meyer (Translator) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.98! \| first editions
14	Sleepwalking Nights: Poems of August Strindberg by August Strindberg add to wishlist see all copies from $12.20! first editions
15 view cover	The Roofing Ceremony & the Silver Lake more books like this by August Strindberg, David Mel Paul (Translator), Margareta Paul (Translator) add to wishlist "The Roofing Ceremony" is a powerful, ultimately hopeful short novel that will revise the narrow view of August Strindberg as merely a misogynist and the gloomiest of Scandinavian writers. This novel has an inwardness, irreducibly and complexly human, that looks back to Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich and forward to Samuel Beckett's Krapp's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	August Strindberg: Selected Essays more books like this by August Strindberg, Michael Robinson (Editor) add to wishlist The first fully edited translation of a series of essays by the great Swedish dramatist, August Strindberg. The essays have been selected for the light they shed, both directly and indirectly, on Strindberg's contribution to the European theater. see all copies from $48.82! new only from $48.82! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Strindberg: Painter and Photographer more books like this by Per Hedstrom, Olle Granath (Foreword by), August Strindberg add to wishlist The literary works of August Strindberg are admired throughout the world, but few people outside his native Scandinavia are aware of his accomplishments as a painter and photographer. This book, written by eminent authorities on Scandinavian art, is the first to bring Strindberg's dramatic and highly original artistic works to an English-speaking ... see all copies from $23.95! new only from $57.25! \| first editions
18 view cover	Strindberg: Plays Two: A Dream Play/The Dance of Death/The Stronger more books like this by August Strindberg, Michael Meyer (Translator) add to wishlist The second volume in the series of authoritative Methuen editions of Strindberg's Collected Plays This volume contains two of Strindberg's best-known plays from the years following his mental breakdown: the expressionist masterpiece A Dream Play (1901), which he described as 'my most beloved play, child of my greatest pain'; and both parts of The ... see all copies from $4.94! new only from $12.46! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Strindberg's Letters, Volume 2: 1892-1912 more books like this by August Strindberg, Michael Robinson, Num (Editor) add to wishlist This is the first major collection in English of August Strindberg's letters, the most vital and wide-ranging body of correspondence in Scandinavian literature. Of ten thousand surviving letters, Michael Robinson has selected and translated more than five hundred of the most important, which trace Strindberg's development and provide a ... see all copies from $14.58! new only from $43.70! \| first editions
20 view cover	A Dream Play, and Four Chamber Plays more books like this by August Strindberg add to wishlist A Dream Play is Strindberg's attempt to interpret human life primarily through memory, imagination, the dream experience in its various forms, and the unconscious, rather than through reason and the evidence of the five senses. The combination of the dream-like atmosphere of this play with the realistic physical and psychological details typical ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $34.54! \| first editions \| SVS
21	The Plays of Strindberg more books like this by August Strindberg add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
22 view cover	Strindberg Plays 3 more books like this by August Strindberg, Michael Meyer (Translator) add to wishlist 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), ... see all copies from $2.98! new only from $11.30! \| SVS
23	The chamber plays more books like this by August Strindberg add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Ghosts/Miss Julia more books like this by Henrik Johan Ibsen, August Strindberg, Thaddeus Torp (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $20.07!
25	Five plays of Strindberg; in new translations by Elizabeth Sprigge. --. by August Strindberg add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS

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