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Title: Plays: Comrades; Facing Death; Pariah; Easter

Author: August Strindberg

Release Date: July, 2005 [EBook #8500]
Posting Date: August 8, 2009

Language: English

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PLAYS: COMRADES; FACING DEATH; PARIAH; EASTER

By August Strindberg

Translated by Edith and Waerner Oland

CONTENTS

COMRADES
A Comedy in IV Acts.

FACING DEATH
A Play in I Act.

PARIAH
A Play in I Act.

EASTER
A Play in III Acts.

FOREWORD

August Strindberg died at Stockholm On May 14, 1912, just ten days
after the first of his plays given in English in the United States had
completed a month's engagement. This play was "The Father," which, on
April 9, 1912, was produced at the Berkeley Theatre in New York, the
same little theatre that witnessed in 1894 the first performance in this
country of Ibsen's "Ghosts."

It happened that August Lindberg, the eminent Swedish actor and friend
of Strindberg [who, by the way, was the first producer of "Ghosts" in
any language], was visiting this country and came to see a performance
of "The Father." His enthusiasm over the interpretation given
Strindberg, in the English rendering of the play as well as in the
acting, led him to cable a congratulatory message to Strindberg; and
upon departing for Stockholm, he asked for some of the many letters
of appreciation from significant sources which the production of "The
Father" had called forth. These he wished to give to Strindberg as
further assurance "that he has," to use Herr Lindberg's words, "the
right representatives in this country." It is gratifying to those
who esteem it a rare privilege to be the introducers of Strindberg's
powerful dramatic art to the American stage to know that he finally
found his genius recognized on this side of the ocean.

"Comrades," the first play in the present volume, belongs to the same
momentous creative period as "The Father" and "Countess Julie," although
there is little anec