The Chamber Plays
1907
First Published
3.88
Average Rating
231
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Includes: The Chamber Plays (The Storm, The Burned Site, The Ghost Sonata, The Pelican, The Black Glove) and The Ghost Highway. Gregory Motton’s translations combine an unprecedented faithfulness to Strindberg’s original texts with the natural fluency of one of our most linguistically able contemporary playwrights.
Avg Rating
3.88
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Author
August Strindberg
Author · 46 books
Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish writer, playwright, and painter. Along with Henrik Ibsen, Søren Kierkegaard, Selma Lagerlöf and Hans Christian Andersen he is arguably the most influential and famous of all Scandinavian authors. Strindberg is known as one of the fathers of modern theatre. His work falls into two major literary movements, Naturalism and Expressionism. He is widely read in Sweden and internationally to this day.
