Design for The Great Highway by August Strindberg.

In his final play, The Great Highway, 1909, Strindberg returns once again to the station drama form. Like the earlier station drama, The Road to Damascus, The Great Highway is essentailly an autobiographical work. Though most of the play is written in prose, the more instense portions are in a free verse form that contains some of Strindberg's finest poetry. The play's final lines describe Strinberg's attitude to his life's achievement or failure. He asks for God's forgiveness, though "I could not be the one I longed to be."