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    In what Strindberg play is the captain driven to insanity by his wife and rejected by his own daughter?

    Question #1533. Asked by abba. (Apr 18 00 8:00 PM)


    McGruff

    		This would be 'The Father' by August Strindberg.

    Apr 19 00, 5:42 PM
    zbeckabee

    		On this -- I must defer to McGruff:

    "Swedish law at the time prevents Laura's wishes about her daughter's future to be followed, so she frames the Captain to be mentally insane in order to win the decision over her daughter's future. In order to make the Captain go insane, she introduces the idea that for all he knows, Bertha may not even be his daughter - implying that she had been unfaithful."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Father_%28Strindberg_play%29

    Jan 28 08, 8:55 AM

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