August Strindberg Plays: Three: Master Olof, Creditors, To Damascus (Part 1)

Strindberg, August

ISBN 10: 0413648400 / ISBN 13: 9780413648402

Published by Methuen Drama, 1991

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: August Strindberg Plays: Three: Master Olof, Creditors, To Damascus (Part 1)
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0413648400
• ISBN 13: 9780413648402
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Acceptable

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Synopsis

The third volume in the series of authoritative Methuen editions of Strindberg's Collected Plays

This volume brings together Strindberg's first great play, Master Olof (1872): 'Michael Meyer's agile translation of a flawed idealist who shrinks from the logic of his own actions and puts compromise before martyrdom' (Guardian); Creditors (1888), portraying a marriage chillingly close to his own: 'one of the finest of his plays . . . holds one in its icy grip' (Sunday Telegraph); and To Damascus (Part I) (1898), 'a play so packed with ideas and invective that it makes most contemporary dramas seem trivial' (Scotsman). "Michael Meyer is the translator most actors turn to when seeking a definitive text" (Sunday Times)

About the Authors

August Strindberg (1849-1912) was a Swedish dramatist, novelist, poet and essayist. His plays include The Father (1887), Miss Julie (1888), The Sronger (1890), Easter (1900), The Dance of Death (1900), A Dream Play (1902), and The Ghost Sonata (1907).

Michael Meyer first went to China in 1995 with the Peace Corps. The winner of a Lowell Thomas Award for travel writing, Meyer has also won a Whiting Writers' Award for nonfiction and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His stories have appeared in the New York Times, Time, Smithsonian, Sports Illustrated, Slate, the Financial Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune. He is the author of The Last Days of Old Beijing, which became a bestseller in China, and he divides his time between Pittsburgh and Singapore.