"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)

Red Room (Everyman's Library)

Literary

Dent

In Miss Julie, a willful young aristocrat, whose perverse nature has already driven her fiancé to break off their engagement, pursues and effectively seduces her father's valet during the course of a Midsummer's Eve celebration. The progress of that seduction and the play's stunning denouement shocked Swedish audiences who first attended the play in 1889. Despite its controversial debut, this now-classic drama, inspired by the new ideas of naturalism and psychology that swept Europe in the late 19th century, helped to shape modern theater, and remains one of the most potent-and most frequently performed-of modern plays. The full text of Miss Julie is reprinted here as translated by Edwin Björkman, complete with Strindberg's critical preface to the play, considered by many to be one of the most important manifestos in theater history.

Miss Julie (Dover Thrift Editions: Plays)

Dover Publications

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