{"product_id":"9781575252612","title":"August Strindberg: Five Major Plays","description":"The five plays in this volume represent Strindberg (1849-1912) at the  height of his dramatic powers. In his great works Strindberg is a  playwright second to none, and as such he shares the world stage with his  major contemporaries: Ibsen, Chekhov, Pirandello, and Shaw. The Father  (1887) is one of the great modern tragedies and has had enormous impact on  some of the leading dramatists of the 20th century.\u003cp\u003e In The Father a husband  and wife struggle tragically for possession of their only child. Miss Julie  (1888) is one of the most performed plays of the modern repertory, a  coruscating battle of the sexes between a young noble woman and her  father's young valet for whom she has developed a neurotic passion. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe  Stronger (1888-89) is a naturalistic blockbuster - a three-character  one-act in which the central character never appears, and one of the two  female rivals for his love says nothing. Great actresses have flocked to  this challenge, both silent and verbal. The final two plays, A Dream Play  (1901) and The Ghost Sonata (1907), find Strindberg in an Expressionist  mode, where time, place, characters and situation merge, split, melt and  reach heights  of theatricalism unmatched since. Mueller's brilliant new translations  renew the currency of these works in the canon of modern theatrical  masterpieces.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Smith \u0026 Kraus, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47051358765296,"sku":"9781575252612","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781575252612_p0.jpg?v=1763797876","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781575252612","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}