About this book

"A Dream Play" was perhaps the first drama to employ a dream-like reality as a genre-in-itself. By doing this, Strindberg abandoned conventional perceptions of time and space. He reduced his original theme, of the man waiting vainly at the theatre for his fiancee who never comes, to a subplot; his chief character now was Indra's Daughter, the child of a god who is sent by her father to live among mortals. She meets and marries a poor man's lawyer, who spends his life vainly trying to right the wrongs of humanity; so she endures the agonies of human existence until, at last, she puts off her mortal flesh and returns to her father.

Publication Details

Publisher
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio)
Published
2001
Pages
56
ISBN
9780660185279
Language
en

About Unknown Author

Swedish novelist and playwright, occasional painter.

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