The Father
Father, The (Fadren) Author: August Strindberg
First Performance: 1887, Copenhagen; 1888, Stockholm
Published: 1887
First English Translation: 1889
Genre: Trag. in 3 acts; Swedish prose
Setting: Middle-class home in Sweden, 1880s
Cast: 5m, 3f
The Captain recognizes the difficulty of disciplining a cavalryman suspected of seducing the kitchen maid, since it is impossible to prove paternity. The Captain insists on his right to send his daughter Bertha to live in the town, where she may become a teacher and free herself from this female-dominated home. His wife Laura is bitterly opposed to this plan, and resolves to defeat her husband. She tells a newly arrived Doctor that the Captain is losing his mind, and then hints to her husband that Bertha is not his own child. She admits that she has...
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