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 psychological analysis and his dramatization of naked emotion within a naturalistic domestic setting make him one of the great innovators of the modern theatre.
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(22 January 1849 – 14 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright and writer.
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STRINDBERG wrote this play at the time when his marriage with Siri von Essen was finally breaking up. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Dance of Death - Acting Edition by a new version by Richard Greenberg August Strindberg in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- A Dream Play by Caryl Churchill in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- The Chamber Plays by August Strindberg in Table of Contents, and Front Matter
- Miss Julie (Dover Thrift Editions) by August Strindberg in Front Matter
- Ghost Sonata and When We Dead Awaken (Crofts Classics) by August Strindberg in Front Matter
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- Scenes of Madness: A Psychiatrist at the Theatre by Derek Russell Davis in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Paradise and Plantation: Tourism and Culture in the Anglophone Caribbean (New World Studies) by Ian Gregory Strachan in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Volume 1, Realism and Naturalism (Modern Drama in Theory & Practice) by J. L. Styan on page 37, and Back Matter
- History of European Drama and Theatre by Erika Fischer-Lichte in Back Matter
- Science and the Stanislavsky Tradition of Acting (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies) by Jonathan Pitches in Back Matter
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