The Dance of Death : Full Text and Introduction

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceStrindberg's chilling anatomy of a marriage, in which the two partners duel with each other until one is utterly defeated.Edgar and Alice, embittered husband and wife, live on an army base on a Swedish island. Alice calls it 'Little Hell', and it's about to get worse.Written in 1900 and consisting of two full-length plays, August Strindberg's The Dance of Death is full of destruction and bitterness, laced with grim humour. Both parts are included in this volume - though usually only the first is staged.This English version of The Dance of the Death in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series is translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine. [Publisher's text]

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