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![Strindberg Plays: v.2: "Dream Play", "Dance of Death", "The Stronger" by August Strindberg 9780413497505](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5198041/5275303/9780413497505__19861.1724647378.jpg?c=1 "Strindberg Plays: v.2: "Dream Play", "Dance of Death", "The Stronger" by August Strindberg 9780413497505")
Strindberg Plays: v.2: "Dream Play", "Dance of Death", "The Stronger" by August Strindberg 9780413497505
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![Strindberg Plays: v.1: "The Father", "Miss Julie", "Ghost Sonata" by August Strindberg 9780413521606](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5206490/5283751/9780413521606__40799.1724669233.jpg?c=1 "Strindberg Plays: v.1: "The Father", "Miss Julie", "Ghost Sonata" by August Strindberg 9780413521606")
Strindberg Plays: v.1: "The Father", "Miss Julie", "Ghost Sonata" by August Strindberg 9780413521606
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £19.20This volume contains three of Strindberg's most famous plays, spanning twenty years of prodigious creativity and recurrent personal crises: The Father, which displays Strindberg's suspicion of women... -
![Strindberg Plays: v. 3: "Master Olof","Creditors", "To Damascus" by August Strindberg 9780413648402](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5158500/5235762/9780413648402__61869.1724535989.jpg?c=1 "Strindberg Plays: v. 3: "Master Olof","Creditors", "To Damascus" by August Strindberg 9780413648402")
Strindberg Plays: v. 3: "Master Olof","Creditors", "To Damascus" by August Strindberg 9780413648402
Booksplease Price: £18.41The 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... -
![Strindberg Plays: v.1: "The Father", "Miss Julie", "Ghost Sonata" by August Strindberg 9780413521606 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9750746/10767351/9780413521606__22700.1781685116.jpg?c=1 "Strindberg Plays: v.1: "The Father", "Miss Julie", "Ghost Sonata" by August Strindberg 9780413521606 [USED COPY]")
Strindberg Plays: v.1: "The Father", "Miss Julie", "Ghost Sonata" by August Strindberg 9780413521606 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £1.95This volume contains three of Strindberg's most famous plays, spanning twenty years of prodigious creativity and recurrent personal crises: The Father, which displays Strindberg's suspicion of women... -
![Strindberg Plays: v.2: "Dream Play", "Dance of Death", "The Stronger" by August Strindberg 9780413497505 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/10013508/11029926/9780413497505__59137.1787118772.jpg?c=1 "Strindberg Plays: v.2: "Dream Play", "Dance of Death", "The Stronger" by August Strindberg 9780413497505 [USED COPY]")
Strindberg Plays: v.2: "Dream Play", "Dance of Death", "The Stronger" by August Strindberg 9780413497505 [USED COPY]
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £1.97The second volume in the series of authoritative Methuen editions of Strindberg's Collected Plays This volume contains two of Strindberg's best-known plays from the years following his mental... -
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin Sue Prideaux 9780571365937
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.68A TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, ECONOMIST AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024A vital re-examination of the trailblazing and controversial... -
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin Sue Prideaux 9780571365944
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, ECONOMIST, NEW STATESMAN AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2025SHORTLISTED... -
Farber: Plays One by Yael Farber 9781783191512
Booksplease Price: £21.86Molora - Based on The Oresteia by Aeschylus In this reworking of Aeschylus' Oresteia, Klytemnestra and Elektra face one another in a dramatic confrontation. Attempts to come to terms with their... -
Spectral Characters: Genre and Materiality on the Modern Stage by Sarah Balkin
Booksplease Price: £59.25Theater's materiality and reliance on human actors has traditionally put it at odds with modernist principles of aesthetic autonomy and depersonalization. Spectral Characters argues that modern... -
The Count is Home: The Development of August Strindberg's Miss Julie, from First Rehearsal to Opening Performance by the Saint Albans Repertory Theater, Washington, D.C., 1970: A Journal by David C Newcomb 9781960090300
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781960090300Author David C NewcombFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint -
The Count is Home: The Development of August Strindberg's Miss Julie, from First Rehearsal to Opening Performance by the Saint Albans Repertory Theater, Washington, D.C., 1970: A Journal by David C Newcomb 9781960090317
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £26.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781960090317Author David C NewcombFormat HardbackPage Count 132Imprint -
The Book of Absinthe: A Cultural History by Phil Baker
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.05La Fee Verte (or "The Green Fairy") has intoxicated artists, poets, and writers ever since the late eighteenth century. Stories abound of absinthe's druglike sensations of mood lift and inspiration... -
Out of the Darkness: Classic Short Fiction from Sweden Vendela Vida 9781517920661
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.83A treasure chest of stories by Swedish authors from the 1880s to the 1950s, many appearing for the first time in EnglishIn the late nineteenth century, Swedish romanticism gave way to vibrant new... -
A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Empire by Professor Michael Gamer
Booksplease Price: £95.81This volume traces a path across the metamorphoses of tragedy and the tragic in Western cultures during the bourgeois age of nations, revolutions, and empires, roughly delimited by the French... -
The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-Century Thought by William R. Everdell
Booksplease Price: £17.99A lively and accessible history of Modernism, The First Moderns is filled with portraits of genius, and intellectual breakthroughs, that richly evoke the fin-de-siecle atmosphere of Paris, Vienna, St... -
A Sourcebook on Naturalist Theatre by Christopher Innes 9780415152297
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £35.99A Sourcebook on Naturalist Theatre provides essential primary sources which document one of the key movements in modern theatre. Christopher Innes has selected three writers to exemplify the... -
Presence: The Strange Science and True Stories of the Unseen Other by Ben Alderson-Day 9781526173508
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.69In this enthralling book, Ben Alderson-Day explores one of the most curious experiences known to humankind: the universal, disturbing sense that someone or something is there when we are alone - the... -
Presence: The Strange Science of the Unseen Other Ben Alderson-Day 9781526184948
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.24A psychologist sets out to understand the uncanny phenomenon of felt presence.We all know the feeling: you're alone but it's like there's someone there with you - a mysterious presence lurking just... -
Microdramas: Crucibles for Theater and Time by John H. Muse 9780472073634
Booksplease Price: £71.55In Microdramas, John H. Muse argues that plays shorter than twenty minutes deserve sustained attention, and that brevity should be considered a distinct mode of theatrical practice. Focusing on... -
Microdramas: Crucibles for Theater and Time by John H. Muse 9780472053636
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.14In Microdramas, John H. Muse argues that tiny plays (i.e., shorter than twenty minutes) deserve sustained attention, and that brevity should be considered a distinct mode of theatrical practice... -
The Vital Lie: Reality and Illusion in Modern Drama by Anthony Abbott 9780817312022
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.26The Vital Lie is the first book to examine the reality-illusion conflict in modern drama from Ibsen to present-day playwrights. The book questions why vital lies, lies necessary for life itself, are... -
Selected Plays, Volume II by Evert Sprinchorn 9780816679744
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.54This second volume of the great Swedish writer August Strindberg's plays begins with To Damascus I (1898), the first of a trilogy. It mirrors his own departure from the naturalism he had explored in... -
The Cloak of Dreams: Chinese Fairy Tales by Bela Balazs 9780691147116
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.95A man is changed into a flea and must bring his future parents together in order to become human again. A woman convinces a river god to cure her sick son, but the remedy has mixed consequences. A... -
The Cloak of Dreams: Chinese Fairy Tales by Bela Balazs
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.00A man is changed into a flea and must bring his future parents together in order to become human again. A woman convinces a river god to cure her sick son, but the remedy has mixed consequences. A... -
Northern Arts: The Breakthrough of Scandinavian Literature and Art, from Ibsen to Bergman by Arnold Weinstein 9780691148243
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £33.23Northern Arts is a magnificent and provocative exploration of Scandinavian literature and art. With intellectual power and deep emotional insights, writer and critic Arnold Weinstein guides us... -
The Japanese Novel of the Meiji Period and the Ideal of Individualism by Janet A. Walker 9780691656441
RRP: £146.00Booksplease Price: £115.44The Western ideal of individualism had a pervasive influence on the culture of the Meiji period in Japan (1868-1912). Janet Walker argues that this ideal also had an important influence on the... -
The Japanese Novel of the Meiji Period and the Ideal of Individualism by Janet A. Walker 9780691601342
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £46.54The Western ideal of individualism had a pervasive influence on the culture of the Meiji period in Japan (1868-1912). Janet Walker argues that this ideal also had an important influence on the... -
Decadence, Degeneration, and the End: Studies in the European Fin de Siecle by Marja Harmanmaa 9781137470881
Booksplease Price: £112.12Art and literature during the European fin-de-siecle period often manifested themes of degeneration and decay, both of bodies and civilizations, as well as illness, bizarre sexuality, and general... -
Julie: After Strindberg by Polly Stenham
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.47Wild and newly single, Julie throws a late night party. In the kitchen, Jean and Kristina clean up as the celebration heaves above them. Crossing the threshold, Julie initiates a power game with Jean... -
Ibsen and Degeneration: Familial Decay and the Fall of Civilization Henrik Johnsson 9781032747545
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Henrik Ibsen's plays were written at a critical juncture in late-19th-century European culture. Appearing at a time when notions of evolution and heredity were commonplace themes in literature and... -
Decadence, Degeneration, and the End: Studies in the European Fin de Siecle by Marja Harmanmaa 9781349500802
Booksplease Price: £112.12Art and literature during the European fin-de-siecle period often manifested themes of degeneration and decay, both of bodies and civilizations, as well as illness, bizarre sexuality, and general... -
Playing the Wife by Ronald Hayman 9780573018671
Booksplease Price: £12.27In a ramshackle theatre, August Strindberg directs two actors in an autobiographical play detailing his difficult, stormy relationship with his first wife. This drama about a sensitive, driven,... -
After Miss Julie by Patrick Marber 9780413711502
Booksplease Price: £14.82A new version of a world classic by one of Britain's best-known contemporary playwrights After Miss Julie relocates August Strindberg's Miss Julie (1888) to an English country house in July 1945. In... -
Drama as Text and Performance: Strindberg's and Bergman's Miss Julie by Egil Törnqvist 9789085550686
RRP: £44.95Booksplease Price: £44.79This bilingual English-Swedish study of August Strindberg's renowned play Miss Julie (1888) provides a penetrating analysis of the author's text and of Ingmar Bergman's praised 1985 production. The... -
Yeats and European Drama by Michael McAteer 9780521769112
Booksplease Price: £57.12Michael McAteer examines the plays of W. B. Yeats, considering their place in European theatre during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. This original study considers the relationship... -
Strindberg and Modernist Theatre: Post-Inferno Drama on the Stage by Frederick J. Marker 9780521039390
Booksplease Price: £41.37Despite the profound influence exerted by August Strindberg on the development of modernist theatre and drama, the myth persisted that his plays - particularly such later works as A Dream Play, To... -
Dance of Death by Rebecca Lenkiewicz
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.01Play something kitty-cat-ish . . . sweet. Imagine I've died and you're galloping through fields.As their thirtieth wedding anniversary approaches, Alice and Edgar are locked in a bitter struggle... -
Performing Religion on the Secular Stage Sharon Aronson-Lehavi 9781032225487
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This book examines the relations between Western religion, secularism, and modern theater and performance. Sharon Aronson-Lehavi posits that the ongoing cultural power of religious texts, icons, and... -
The Paradoxes of Planning: A Psycho-Analytical Perspective by Sara Westin
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.84Why is it that modern architects and planners - these benevolent and socially visionary experts - have created environments that can make one feel so uneasy? Using a philosophical and... -
Aspects of Modern Swedish Literature by Irene Scobbie
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £21.96This is the most comprehensive history of modern Swedish literature to have been published in English. The book includes both in-depth studies of major writers like August Strindberg, Hjalmar...