Format:
1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
Uniform Title:
Spöksonaten
Content:
'The Ghost Sonata' is a phantasmagoric dream play steeped in cynicism and disgust, peeling open a world drained of life and rotted by moral corruption and despair. The play's transfixing, unhinged characters together form a ghastly meditation on disillusionment and decay. Strindberg describes it as an 'attempt to imitate the inconsequent yet transparently logical shape of a dream'. It is the third of Strindberg's 'chamber plays' composed for his Intimate Theatre. It was written in 1907 and produced the following year, when it was violently condemned
Note:
Originally published: in print in Plays one. London: Methuen Drama, 1983
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Translated from the Swedish
Language:
English
Keywords:
Drama
DOI:
10.5040/9781408184554.00000035