Strindberg The Plays: The Chamber Plays / The Great Highway (2) - Couverture souple

Strindberg, August

 
9781840020861: Strindberg The Plays: The Chamber Plays / The Great Highway (2)
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1840020865 ISBN 13 : 9781840020861
Editeur : Oberon Books Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

Includes The Chamber Plays (The Storm, The Burned Site, The Ghost Sonata, The Pelican, The Black Glove) and The Great Highway August Strindberg, the great Swedish dramatist and author, had a profound influence on European drama. His career was particularly marked by a desire to experiment with and redefine theatre. With roots in psychological naturalism, he was nevertheless fascinated by symbols, dreams and fantasies.His later plays anticipated and paved the way for surrealistic, expressionistic and absurdist theatre.This, the second volume of the plays of Strindberg publishedby Oberon Books, contains the Chamber Plays (The Storm, The Burned Site, The Ghost Sonata, The Pelican, The Black Glove) - some of the most characteristic and original of Strindbergs works - as well as Strindbergs last great play, written shortly before his death. This is The Great Highway, one of the expressionist masterpiecesof modern drama. A man walks the Alps encountering feuding millers, a hermit, a murderer, a Japanese man resolved to burn himself to death to cleanse him of his existence, and a little girl waiting for her father to return. In the end he seeks to justify his life to an unknown woman whilst coughing blood into his handkerchief. The Tempter himself arrives with an offer from the Grand Duke.... Gregory Mottons translations combine an unprecedented faithfulness to Strindbergs original texts with the natural fluency of one of our most linguistically able contemporary playwrights.

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À propos de l'auteur

August Strindberg, the great Swedish dramatist and author, had a profound influence on European drama. His career was particularly marked by a desire to experiment with and redefine theatre. With roots in psychological naturalism, he was nevertheless fascinated by symbols, dreams and fantasies. His later plays anticipated and paved the way for surrealistic, expressionistic and absurdist theatre.

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Éditeur
Oberon Books Ltd
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1840020865
ISBN 13 
9781840020861
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
304
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