'This volume contains three of Strindberg''s most famous plays, spanning twenty years of prodigious creativity and recurrent personal crises- The Father, which displays Strindberg''s suspicion of women at its most implacable, ''powerful and profound'' (Guy de Maupassant); Miss Julie (1888), which he called his masterpiece, and in which he presents with startling modernity the conflict between sexual passion and social position; and The Ghost Sonata (1907), written in physical pain and spiritual torment, which is a phantasmagoric dream play, ''a direct source for the Theatre of the Absurd'' (Martin Esslin). ''Michael Meyer is the translator most actors turn to when seeking a definitive text'' (Sunday Times)'