August Strindberg 
Strindberg Plays: 2 
Dream Play; Dance of Death; the Stronger

The second volume in the series of authoritative Methuen editions of Strindberg »s Collected Plays







This volume contains two of Strindberg »s best-known plays from the years following his mental breakdown: the expressionist masterpiece A Dream Play (1901), which he described as  »my most beloved play, child of my greatest pain »; and both parts of The Dance of Death (1900), a terrifying analysis of a tormented marriage:  »it leaves an astonishing, an almost unaccountable, impression of genius … as a beggar »s cloak full of holes may have a kind of majestic beauty when the wind fills it, so this broken drama, having unmistakably the winds of vision in it, has beauty and dignity and power » (The Times, 1928). Also included is his earlier short play The Stronger (1889), a fascinating study of the power of personality.’Michael Meyer is the translator most actors turn to when seeking a definitive text’ (Sunday Times)