Dec 21, 2009

The Great God Brown | What Do I Read Next?

In the philosophic essay The Birth of Tragedy (1872) Friedrich Nietzsche outlines his vision of the tensions between the Apollonian and Dionysian impulses and discusses the uses of masks in Greek tragedy (paperback editions from Dover and Oxford University Press).

August Strindberg’s surrealistic A Dream Play, which opened in 1902, became the forerunner of modern expressionism and influenced a new generation of dramatists, including Eugene O’Neill...