August Strindberg 
Strindberg 
Five Plays

Strindberg’s most important and most frequently performed plays—
The Father, Miss Julie, A Dream Play, The Dance of Death, and
The Ghost Sonata—are gathered together here in translations praised for their fluency and their elegance.


This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1983.

Strindberg’s most important and most frequently performed plays—
The Father, Miss Julie, A Dream Play, The Dance of Death, and
The Ghost Sonata—are gathered together here in translations praised for their fluency and their elegance.

Table of Content

Introduction

Translator’s Note and Acknowledgments

The Father (1887)

Miss Julie (1888)

The Dance of Death (1900), Part I

The Dance of Death (1900), Part II

A Dream Play (1901)

The Ghost Sonata (1907)

About the author

Harry G. Carlson teaches Drama and Theatre at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He has written widely on Swedish drama and theatre and has been honored in Sweden for his books, Strindberg and the Poetry of Myth (California, 1982) and Out of Inferno: Strindberg’s Reawakening as an Artist (1996), play translations and critical essays.