Format:
1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
Uniform Title:
Dd͏̈sdansen
Content:
Hailed by Strindberg himself as his 'best play', 'The Dance of Death' seems paradoxically so - it is a dark and pessimistic depiction of a marriage in strife. The relationship between the main characters, Alice and Edgar, parallels that of Strindberg's sister, Anna, to her husband, Hugo, with the author's insertion of himself as 'Kurt', a man who covets Edgar's wife. 'The Dance of Death', written separately in two parts in 1900, is filled with vituperative argumentation and increasing violence between the couple, only made more complicated by the near-affair that Kurt has with Alice (and the questionable morality of Kurt's biographical connection with the author)
Note:
Previously issued in print: in Plays two. London, Methuen Drama, 2000
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Translated from the Swedish
Language:
English
Keywords:
Drama
DOI:
10.5040/9781408183755.00000011