Together in this volume are two plays by the Scandinavian geniuses of modern drama, which focus on a single theme--the reality of death. Translated and edited by Thaddeus L. Torp, this edition contains both August Strindberg's Ghost Sonata and Henrik Ibsen's When We Dead Awaken for performance and study and includes an introduction, a chronology of principal works and important events in the authors' lives, and a bibliography.
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One-act drama in three scenes by August Strindberg, written and published as Spoksonaten in 1907 and performed the following year. The drama is considered the best of Strindberg's four chamber plays, and it is one of the most macabre, wrathful works in all of world literature. The playwright's antirealist invocation of ghosts, vampires, and evil spirits helped usher in Expressionist drama. The work concerns the vampirish Hummel, seeking to destroy the Colonel, who years ago seduced the woman Hummel loved. Hummel introduces a Student to his peculiar coterie, which includes both the Colonel's wife (known as the Mummy) and her frail daughter, who draws life from hyacinths. At an elaborate "ghost supper" in the Colonel's apartment, Hummel humiliates the Colonel and tells the guests that the hyacinth girl is his child, but when the Mummy reveals Hummel's sordid past he hangs himself. Later, as the girl slowly dies, the Student declaims how appearances can mask evil; he turns to the audience and warns them that they, too, cannot escape their sins. --The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature
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Text: English, Swedish (translation)
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This is exactly what I needed for my theatre appreciation class. I needed to read a play to do an oral report on, and this what just right. The book is in great condition and came in the right timing.
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