Plays by August Strindberg, First Series

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This collection of Strindberg's plays in Edwin Björkman's translations was central to bringing the Swedish playwright to English-language audiences. Strindberg is the great experimentalist of Northern European drama — by turns naturalist, symbolist, and expressionist depending on which period of his intensely productive career these plays represent. The Dream Play and A Ghost Sonata belong to his late expressionist phase; the earlier naturalist works like Miss Julie anticipate the psychological brutality of O'Neill. Strindberg's influence on twentieth-century theater is second only to Ibsen's among Scandinavian playwrights.