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Three Plays - The Father, Miss Julia & Easter
Strindberg August
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Description for Three Plays - The Father, Miss Julia & Easter
Paperback. Contains three plays such as "Miss Julie", "The Father", and "Easter" that focus on the tumultuous relationships between men and women, whether they are father and daughter, brother and sister or lovers. Editor(s): Watts, Peter. Translator(s): Watts, Peter. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 134.
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 brought to madness and driven out of his home by the suspicion that his daughter is not his own child, while Easter centres on a family in need of redemption for its sins and suffering, finding forgiveness at a season of rebirth. Strindberg's acute ... Read more
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 brought to madness and driven out of his home by the suspicion that his daughter is not his own child, while Easter centres on a family in need of redemption for its sins and suffering, finding forgiveness at a season of rebirth. Strindberg's acute ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1958
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780140440829
SKU
V9780140440829
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Strindberg August
August Strindberg, born in Stockholm in 1849, was the author of more than fifty plays, as well as novels, short stories, poems and an autobiography. Few of his earlier plays are remembered, but from the 1880s he began to write with great intensity. He died in 1912. Peter Watts also translated Ghosts and Other Plays for the Penguin ... Read more
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