num_pages: 125
description: Laura and Adolf have a daughter, Bertha, whom they both wish to claim as their own. Laura tells Adolf that he cannot be sure he is her real father. Wrestling with this thought, driven mad by Laura’s malice and finally betrayed even by Bertha, Adolf is last seen being strapped into a straitjacket.
language: English
title: The Father
titlecomplete: The Father
genres: Fiction, Plays, 19th Century, Theatre, Classics, Swedish Literature, Scandinavian Literature, Sweden, Drama, School
ratings_count: 2257
publisher: Nick Hern Books