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Author: Michael Robinson Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1139827448 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 227
Book Description
August Strindberg is one of the most enduring of nineteenth-century dramatists, and is also an internationally recognised novelist, autobiographer, and painter. This Companion presents contributions by leading international scholars on different aspects of Strindberg's highly colourful life and work. The essays focus primarily on his most celebrated plays; these include the Naturalist Dramas, The Father and Miss Julie; the experimental dramas with which he created a true modernist theatre – To Damascus and A Dream Play; and the Chamber Plays of 1908 which, like so much of his work, exerted a powerful influence on much later twentieth-century drama. His plays are contextualised for what they contribute both to the history of drama and developments in theatre practice, and other essays clarify the enormous importance to these dramas of his other work, most notably the autobiographical novel Inferno, and his lifelong interest in science, the occult, sexual politics, and the visual arts.
Author: Michael Robinson Publisher: MHRA ISBN: 0947623833 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 770
Book Description
This copiously annotated bibliography documents and examines the whole range of commentary on Strindberg's works and activity in many fields besides the plays for which he is internationally best known. These include his prose fiction and poetry, his work as an historian and natural historian, and his relationship to the other arts, most notably his painting. It is concerned with both lasting works of literary and dramatic criticism, as well as reviews of his books and plays in the theatre, and some more ephemeral material, all of this in several languages. Organised generically and by subject and individual work, the bibliography enables the reader to trace the changing impact of Strindberg and his works in various countries and during different periods. It is thus very much a study in reception as well as a bibliographical record of published material. It traces the developing image of Strindberg and his writing both during his lifetime and in subsequent years, and with frequent cross reference offers a comprehensive overview of a literary and existential project that has rarely been matched for its multifaceted diversity. The bibliography is published in three parts. Volume 1, General Studies (978-0-947623-81-4) and Volume 2, The Plays (978-0-947623-82-1) are also now available. Michael Robinson is Emeritus Professor of Drama and Scandinavian Studies at the University of East Anglia, Norwich.
Author: August Strindberg Publisher: ISBN: 9781499182767 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 220
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An excerpt from the Scandinavian Review Volume 6 [published in 1918] : "Historical Miniatures" is a book well worth translating. It consists of twenty-two short stories, each one concerned with a number of important historical characters at some period of the world's history, usually a turning-point. They are not to be read lightly, for Strindberg firmly believed in a progressive cumulative accomplishment in the development of the race, and attempts to introduce into each tale his conception of the new acquisitions the world had made in its onward march. The stories are neatly finished, artistic, and almost religious in their philosophical fervor.