NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1921
CONTENTS
[INTRODUCTION]
[SWANWHITE]
[SIMOOM]
[DEBIT AND CREDIT]
[ADVENT]
[ACT I]
[ACT II]
[ACT III]
[ACT IV]
[ACT V]
[THE THUNDERSTORM]
[AFTER THE FIRE]
INTRODUCTION
The collection of plays contained in this volume is unusually representative, giving what might be called a cross-section of Strindberg's development as a dramatist from his naturalistic revolt in the middle eighties, to his final arrival at resigned mysticism and Swedenborgian symbolism.
"Swanwhite" was written in the spring of 1901, about the time when Strindberg was courting and marrying his third wife, the gifted Swedish actress Harriet Bosse. In the fall of 1902 the play appeared in book form, together with "The Crown Bride" and "The Dream Play," all of them being issued simultaneously, at Berlin, in a German translation made by Emil Schering.