"Inferno" and "From an Occult Diary" are for the most part based on a diary that Strindberg kept between 1896 and 1908 - undoubtedly the most troubled period of his life.

Inferno / From an Occult Diary

August Strindberg

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Classics

Axel Borg is sent to one of the outermost islands of the Stockholm archipelago to help the inhabitants safeguard their dwindling fishing industry, but he soon finds himself at odds with the local people and their primitive, sometimes brutal, ways.

By The Open Sea (penguin Classics)

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Text: English, Swedish (translation)

Plays of Confession and Therapy: To Damascus 1, to Damascus 2, and to Damascus 3 : August Strindberg

Dramas & Plays

Univ of Washington Pr

Book 9780371978139

The Six Plays of Strindberg with introductions for each one: The Father, Miss Julie, The Stronger, Easter, A Dream Play, The Ghost Sonata. Translated by Elizabeth Sprigge

Six Plays of Strindberg: The Father, Miss Julie, The Stronger, Easter, A Dream Play, The Ghost Sonata

DOUBLEDAY ANCHOR BOOK

The Plays of Strindberg

Random House Trade Paperbacks

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)

Strindberg: Plays: Two (The Dance of Death / A Dream Play / The Stronger)

Humor & Entertainment

Methuen Drama

This volume contains three of Strindberg's most famous plays, spanning twenty years of prodigious creativity and recurrent personal crises: The Father, which displays Strindberg's suspicion of women at its most implacable, 'powerful and profound' (Guy de Maupassant); Miss Julie (1888), which he called his masterpiece, and in which he presents with startling modernity the conflict between sexual passion and social position; and The Ghost Sonata (1907), written in physical pain and spiritual torment, which is a phantasmagoric dream play, 'a direct source for the Theatre of the Absurd' (Martin Esslin). "Michael Meyer is the translator most actors turn to when seeking a definitive text" (Sunday Times)

Plays One: The Father, Miss Julie, The Ghost Sonata (Methuen World Dramatists Series)

In Strindberg’s A Dream Play, written in 1901, characters merge into each other, locations change in an instant and a locked door becomes an obsessively recurrent image. As Strindberg himself wrote in his Preface, he wanted to imitate the disjointed yet seemingly logical shape of a dream.  Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable.  Time and place do not exist.”Caryl Churchill’s spare and resonant new version was first staged at the National Theatre, London, in a production by Katie Mitchell, where A Dream Play was called fresh, new and magical” (Telegraph).Caryl Churchill has written for the stage, television and radio. A renowned and prolific playwright, her plays include Cloud Nine, Top Girls, Far Away, Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?, Bliss,  Love and Information, Mad Forest and A Number. In 2002, she received the Obie Lifetime Achievement Award and 2010, she was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.August Strindberg (1849-1912) was a novelist and playwright from Stockholm, Sweden. His plays include Miss Julie, The Father, To Damascus, A Dream Play, and The Pelican. In 1912 Strindberg's birthday was marked by a torchlight procession through Stockholm, where his radical journalism had earned him the title of people’s writer.’

A dream play,

Secker and Warburg

Red Room (Everyman's Library)

Literary

Dent

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