Plays from the Cynical Life: Playing with Fire, Debit and Credit, Mother Love, the First Warning, Facing Death, Pariah, Simoon

by August Strindberg

The plays in this volume are one-act dramas based on human situations as conceived and interpreted by Strindberg at a time when he was convinced human beings are essentially selfish, self-centered creatures. All of them have been presented successfully in Swedish and other Scandinavian theaters. The situations are surely typical: people's willingness to claim credit for a fellow human being's success, a mother's manipulation of her daughter's life,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295959800
• ISBN13: 9780295959801
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 147 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.6"