A Dream Play is Strindberg's attempt to interpret human life primarily through memory, imagination, the dream experience in its various forms, and the unconscious, rather than through reason and the evidence of the five senses. The combination of the dream-like atmosphere of this play with the realistic physical and psychological details typical of Strindberg make it an extraordinarily powerful and moving work.

A dream play.--Stormy weather.--The house that burned.--The ghost sonata.--The pelican.