Format:
1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
Uniform Title:
Starkare
Content:
'The Stronger' is a one act play with only three characters, set in a women's café in Stockholm in the 1880s. Of the characters, Madame X, Mademoiselle Y, and the waitress, only the first speaks. However, through a series of stage directions indicating provocative gestures and emotive facial expressions, Mademoiselle Y is, too, given a distinct persona. Strindberg's allegiance to the reality and normality of life is evident in this play, as the main point of 'conversation' between Madame X and Mademoiselle Y is on the home and domestic relations. However, in its creation of drama through the ordinary, 'The Stronger', based on his own wife and marriage, probes psychological issues that were of the utmost importance to Strindberg, as he broke away from the traditional play styles of Sweden and Europe
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:
10.5040/9781408183755.00000004
