August Strindberg

"The Heyst family live under a shadow. The father is in prison for embezzlement and the daughter, Eleanora, has been committed to an asylum. Mrs Heyst and her son Elis live from day to day on the edge of collapse. They fear that they are on the brink of ruin, but as the snow melts and a single daffodil appears, Easter Eve brings them hope, joy and mercy. Passionate and powerful, Easter is August Strindberg's most tender play and perhaps closest to his heart. It is a play about forgiveness and the coincidences of life from one of the world's master dramatists. "

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Strindberg's chilling anatomy of a marriage, in which the two partners duel with each other until one is utterly defeated. Edgar and Alice, embittered husband and wife, live on an army base on a Swedish island. Alice calls it 'Little Hell', and it's about to get worse. Written in 1900 and consisting of two full-length plays, August Strindberg's The Dance of Death is full of destruction and bitterness, laced with grim humour. Both parts are included in this volume – though usually only the first is staged. This English version of The Dance of the Death in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series is translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.

Caryl Churchill's spare and resonant version of Strindberg's enigmatic masterpiece. Written in 1901, a mysterious amalgam of Freud, Alice in Wonderland and Strindberg's own private symbolism, A Dream Play follows the logic of a dream: A young woman comes from another world to see if life is really as difficult as people make it out to be. Characters merge into each other, locations change in an instant and a locked door becomes an obsessive recurrent image. As Strindberg 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.' This version of A Dream Play, from a literal translation by Charlotte Barslund, is by leading playwright Caryl Churchill. It was first performed in the Cottesloe auditorium of the National Theatre, London, in February 2005, in a production directed by Katie Mitchell, with additional material by Katie Mitchell and the company. Also included is an introduction by Caryl Churchill.

On a late 19th-century estate, a Midsummer's Eve celebration leads to a scandalous encounter between a count's daughter and his footman.

Translated by Eivor Martinus, Thunder in the Air, After the Fire, The Ghost Sonata, The Pelican and The Black Glove.

Includes The Chamber Plays (The Storm, The Burned Site, The Ghost Sonata, The Pelican, The Black Glove) and The Great Highway August Strindberg, the great Swedish dramatist and author, had a profound influence on European drama. His career was particularly marked by a desire to experiment with and redefine theatre. With roots in psychological naturalism, he was nevertheless fascinated by symbols, dreams and fantasies.His later plays anticipated and paved the way for surrealistic, expressionistic and absurdist theatre.This, the second volume of the plays of Strindberg publishedby Oberon Books, contains the Chamber Plays (The Storm, The Burned Site, The Ghost Sonata, The Pelican, The Black Glove) - some of the most characteristic and original of Strindberg's works - as well as Strindberg's last great play, written shortly before his death. This is The Great Highway, one of the expressionist masterpiecesof modern drama. A man walks the Alps encountering feuding millers, a hermit, a murderer, a Japanese man resolved to burn himself to death to cleanse him of his existence, and a little girl waiting for her father to return. In the end he seeks to justify his life to an unknown woman whilst coughing blood into his handkerchief. The Tempter himself arrives with an offer from the Grand Duke...Gregory Motton's translations combine an unprecedented faithfulness to Strindberg's original texts with the natural fluency of one of our most linguistically able contemporary playwrights.

En av vår nationalskald August Strindbergs mest underliga böcker. Strindberg skrev många underliga böcker och den här tillhör helt avgjort de allra mest underliga! Boken har titeln Antibarbarus. Den innehåller Strindbergs burdusa nedsabling av den vanliga kemins lära om grundämnena och hans lansering av en egen kemi som gör gällande att det bara finns ett enda grundämne, nämligen väte. Alla andra ämnen är uppbyggda av väte. Vilket skulle bevisas – och bevisningen genomför Strindberg genom att åskådligt berätta om sina experiment med svavel och andra kemikalier som han upphettar i deglar och blandar med vatten och andra vätskor och låter indunsta i skålar.

Det litterära geniet August Strindberg provade sina talanger också inom bildkonsten. "Jag är en djefla man, som kan göra många konster" som han beskrev sig själv. Tidvis sysslade han intensivt såväl med måleri som med konstkritik. När han gav ut denna lilla träffsäkra pamflett Anvisning att på 60 minuter bliva konstkännare som skickligt förlöjligar den typiske konstkritikern och avslöjar honom som en humbug - året var 1877 - var han bara 28 år och hade ännu inte fått sitt publika genombrott med romanen Röda rummet (som kom 1879) - men han var redan väl bevandrad i bildkonstens värld.