The Father (Plays for Performance Series)

Strindberg, August

ISBN 10: 0929587863 / ISBN 13: 9780929587868

Published by Ivan R. Dee, 1992

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All pages and the cover are intact, but shrink wrap, dust covers, or boxed set case may be missing. Pages may include limited notes, highlighting, or minor water damage but the text is readable.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Father (Plays for Performance Series)
• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0929587863
• ISBN 13: 9780929587868
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: acceptable

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Synopsis

By far Strindberg's most aggressive work. The Father is a feverish nightmare of the struggle he saw between defiant masculinity and the treacherous weakness of women. Plays for Performance Series.

About the Authors

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.

Robert Sanford Brustein (born April 21, 1927 in New York City) is an American theatrical critic, producer, playwright and educator. He founded both Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut and the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he remains a Creative Consultant, and has been the theatre critic for The New Republic since 1959. He comments on politics for the Huffington Post.

Brustein is a Senior Research Fellow at Harvard University and a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Suffolk University in Boston. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1999 and in 2002 was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. In 2003 he served as a Senior Fellow with the National Arts Journalism Program at Columbia University, and in 2004 and 2005 was a senior fellow at the National Endowment for the Arts Arts Journalism Institute in Theatre and Musical Theatre at the University of Southern California.

Robert Brustein is married to Doreen Beinart, and has one son, Daniel Brustein, and two stepchildren, Peter Beinart and Jean Beinart Stern.