RECENT productions of The Father, The
Dance of Death, and others of Strindberg's plays have revived interest in the work of the great Swedish dramatist who, twenty years after Ibsen, tried to reverse the pre-feminist current of intellectual sentiment that Ibsen had set up. Professor Allardyce Nicoll , who talks on him this evening, is Professor of English Language and Literature at London University, and a recognized authority on the history of the drama.