Dream Play [Paperback]

August Strindberg (Author)

Book Description

Following the logic of a dream, in which characters merge into each other, locations change in an instant and a locked door becomes an obsessively recurrent image, Strindberg's A Dream Play written in 1902 is an amazing amalgam of Freud, Alice's Wonderland and Strindberg's own private symbolism. As Strindberg himself said, he wanted "to capture the inconsistent yet ostensibly logical structure of a dream. Everything can happen...Time and Place do not exist." Caryl Churchill's spare and resonant new version will premiere at the National Theatre in repertoire from mid-February 2005, coinciding with the big Strindberg exhibition at Tate Modern.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Fantasy play in 14 scenes by August Strindberg, published in Swedish as Ett dromspel in 1902 and first produced in 1907. Presented as a dream, this fluid tableau of human foibles is a poignant lament that humans are to be pitied. As the play opens, the daughter of the Vedic god Indra arrives on Earth with the intention of determining if human complaints are justified. She encounters a host of tormented characters and herself is enmeshed in a wrenching marriage. Only the Poet, who has created the dream, seems unaffected by human suffering. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Language Notes

Text: English, Swedish (translation) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Avon Books
• ISBN-10: 0380000903
• ISBN-13: 978-0380000906
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,911,697 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't Buy, October 8, 2009

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Jonas Pettersson "S.J. Pettersson" (Los Angeles, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Dream Play (Paperback)

Absolutely terrible "modern" translation with entire passages omitted. My favorite play of all time; read it (if you can't be bothered to learn Swedish)in the translation (very good but not perfect)by Michael Meyer.

2 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Strindberg's "A Dream Play", March 24, 2000

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This review is from: Dream Play (Paperback)

One of the gods daughters came to earth to see how earth was. On earth one character is hunting for the love of his life, that has left him. Time passes with out memories. The play over all is a but confusing, the characters are different everythimg that they are mentioned. But in the long run the characters show you how lonely and depressed that they are.