{"product_id":"strindberg-the-plays-volume-two-the-storm-the-burned-site-the-ghost-sonata-the-pelican-9781840020861","title":"Strindberg: The Plays: Volume Two: The Storm; The Burned Site; The Ghost Sonata; The Pelican","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIncludes The Chamber Plays (\u003ci\u003eThe Storm, The Burned Site, The Ghost Sonata, The Pelican, The Black Glove\u003c\/i\u003e) and \u003ci\u003eThe Great Highway\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAugust Strindberg, the great Swedish dramatist and author, had a profound influence on European drama. His career was particularly marked by a desire to experiment with and redefine theatre. With roots in psychological naturalism, he was nevertheless fascinated by symbols, dreams and fantasies.His later plays anticipated and paved the way for surrealistic, expressionistic and absurdist theatre.This, the second volume of the plays of Strindberg publishedby Oberon Books, contains the Chamber Plays (\u003ci\u003eThe Storm\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Burned Site\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Ghost Sonata\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Pelican\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Black Glove\u003c\/i\u003e) - some of the most characteristic and original of Strindberg's works - as well as Strindberg's last great play, written shortly before his death. This is \u003ci\u003eThe Great Highway\u003c\/i\u003e, one of the expressionist masterpiecesof modern drama. A man walks the Alps encountering feuding millers, a hermit, a murderer, a Japanese man resolved to burn himself to death to cleanse him of his existence, and a little girl waiting for her father to return. In the end he seeks to justify his life to an unknown woman whilst coughing blood into his handkerchief. The Tempter himself arrives with an offer from the Grand Duke.... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Gregory Motton's translations combine an unprecedented faithfulness to Strindberg's original texts with the natural fluency of one of our most linguistically able contemporary playwrights.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAugust Strindberg (1849-1912) is best-known for his misogyny and as the author of Miss Julie (1889). His first success came as a novelist and autobiographer. His plays (and he wrote over sixty) were deeply controversial in their time and still are to some extent. They range form bold naturalism (e.g. The father, 1887) to an entralling expressionism (e.g. The Ghost Sonata, 1907).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oberon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50433258324242,"sku":"9781840020861","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_795961d8-bf52-40d6-b6e2-053c87704f87.jpg?v=1729564866","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/strindberg-the-plays-volume-two-the-storm-the-burned-site-the-ghost-sonata-the-pelican-9781840020861","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}