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FIVE PLAYS OF STRINDBERG In new translation by ELIZABETH SPRIGGE This is the second Anchor volume of August Strindberg's plays to appear in this country in new translations by Eliza- beth Sprigge, whose biography of Strindberg is a standard work. The plays she has chosen show the great range of Strindberg's moods and style, from Creditors, a naturalistic, rather ironic view of the corrosive effects of passion, and The Dance of Death, a bitter and tragic expression of the same theme, to The Great Highway, a synthesis of Strind- berg's command of dramatic prose and his great gift for symbolic, mystical verse. "Strindberg still remains among the most modern of the moderns, the greatest interpreter in the theater of the char- acteristic spiritual conflicts which constitute the drama— the blood—of our lives today. He carried Naturalism to a logical attainment of such poignant intensity that, if the work of any other playwright is to be called 'naturalism,' we must classify a play like 'The Dance of Death' as 'super- naturalism,' and place it in a class by itself, exclusively Strindberg's since no one before or after him has had the genius to qualify." Eugene O'Neill, in Provincetoicn Pl

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Author

Elizabeth Sprigge (translation)

Publisher

ANCHOR BOOKS DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY, INC. GARDEN CITY

Published

1960

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction