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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. Introduction Textual Note Bibliography Chronology Explanatory Notes
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Michael Robinson is Professor of Scandinavian Studies at the University of East Anglia.
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9 of 12 people found the following review helpful
sexual passion and social position
11 July 2004
Format:Paperback
I don't care that much for Strindberg's other plays, but I love "Miss Julie." This is one of my favorite plays, a very gripping and powerful drama about a male servant and his employer's spoiled daughter who plays games with him. She's all too aware of her superiority over him in this wealthy household and she loves to rub it in his face. However, her upper-class boredom leads her to spend time with the servant chatting away and killing time, and she doesn't realize that by interacting with him in such a casual and personal way, she's bringing herself more and more down to his social level. She feels trapped in her idle life of money and privilege, and he feels trapped in his badly paid lowly job. But she envies his freedom. Each has the exact opposite of what the other has, and each wants what the other has. Also, there is one other ingredient--they are both attracted to each other in this conflict between sexual passion and social position. This play was coldly received when it first came out in 1888 for its startling modernity. The antagonistic love-hate relationship it shows between the man and woman is refreshingly modern even today.
David Rehak
author of "Love and Madness"
Horrible translation!
25 Jan 2012
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This collection of plays by Strindberg is a horrible translation with a worse editing job. Stage directions are written in the exact same style as the dialogue and are very confusing to pick out and understand. Plays are not individually labeled and have no separation between them. The only way to know what play you are reading is to seach by other means. Really and truely a bad book of plays for the editing job. Do not buy this book if you can help it.
5 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Do not waste your money on this edition
11 Mar 2010
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This edition is truly awful. The first page of the book says that it was completely translated and edited by a computer without any human intervention, and it shows. It is riddled with spelling errors, has not been copy edited; the mistakes that were printed are so bad that it is difficult to read the plays. In addition, the actual translation is so bad that important points are lost.
In regards to the overall organization, there is no separation between the plays. The first line of the second play immediately follows the last line of the first, with no acknowledgement that they are separate works.
This version of the play may be inexpensive, but you will have to spend more money in the end to buy a different (better) edition of the plays.
In regards to the overall organization, there is no separation between the plays. The first line of the second play immediately follows the last line of the first, with no acknowledgement that they are separate works.
This version of the play may be inexpensive, but you will have to spend more money in the end to buy a different (better) edition of the plays.
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