Plays by August Strindberg, Third Series

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The third series of Strindberg's plays in English translation likely includes works from his post-Inferno expressionist period — The Ghost Sonata, A Dream Play, or related works — representing his most formally radical departure from naturalism. A Dream Play (1901) presents the world as experienced by a goddess who descends to Earth: the logic is entirely oneiric, scenes dissolving into each other without causal connection, characters blending and transforming. The Ghost Sonata (1907) is a chamber play of supernatural horror set in a bourgeois house whose comfortable surface conceals systematic moral rot. These are among the most important plays in the modern repertoire.