The Cambridge Companion to August Strindberg

The Cambridge Companion to August Strindberg
Author: Michael Robinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2009-09-24
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1139827448

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.

The Worlds of August Strindberg

The Worlds of August Strindberg
Author: Björn Meidal
Publisher: Max Strom
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Authors, Swedish
ISBN: 9789171262486

This is the first ever comprehensive photographic biography of Sweden's most influential writer and playwright. Prominent scholar Björn Meidal and photo editor Bengt Wanselius have together created a unique account of August Strindberg and his life. This magnificent volume presents more than 500 contemporary photographs from Strindberg's world - Stockholm, the archipelago, Berlin, Paris and all the other places that have contributed in shaping the world-renowned playwright and writer. Fifteen generously designed chapters chart Strindberg's life and creative process, his encounters with love, friends and enemies and, not least, all his trips around Europe. The text is written with great knowledge and a generous dose of humour, by Professor Björn Meidal, one of the world's foremost authorities on Strindberg. The abundance of photographs allows the reader to dive directly into Strindberg's time.

Miss Julie

Miss Julie
Author: August Strindberg
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 65
Release: 2012-03-01
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0486111970

One of the greatest classics of modern theater concerns a willful young aristocrat's seduction of her father's valet during a Midsummer's Eve celebration. Complete with Strindberg's highly-regarded critical preface.

Strindberg

Strindberg
Author: Per Hedstrom
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0300091877

Om den svenske forfatter August Strindberg (1849-1912) som maler og fotograf

August Strindberg

August Strindberg
Author: Olof Lagercrantz
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Total Pages: 400
Release: 1985-09-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780374519414

Argues that Strindberg intentionally directed his controversial emotional life to his art and purposely created personal chaos in order to generate his creative inspiration

The Road to Damascus

The Road to Damascus
Author: August Strindberg
Publisher: The Floating Press
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2010-12-01
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1775450406

Swedish writer August Strinberg played a major role in introducing a more modernist sensibility into his native country's literature, producing several major novels and plays that are still regarded as some of the most significant works of twentieth-century Swedish literature. The Road to Damascus is a dramatic trilogy that broke new ground in stagecraft and characterization, touching on complex themes of spirituality and selfhood in the process.

August Strindberg

August Strindberg
Author: Birgitta Steene
Publisher: Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksell
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1982
Genre: Dramatists, Swedish
ISBN:

Strindberg

Strindberg
Author: Sue Prideaux
Publisher:
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2013-07-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780300198065

The author looks at the life of the playwright best known for the work Miss Julie, paying special attention to how real life inspired the ideas, premises and characters of his plays and other literary works.

Mies Julie

Mies Julie
Author: Yaël Farber
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2016-08-11
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1849437610

South African born internationally acclaimed director and playwright, Yaël Farber, sets her explosive new adaptation of Strindberg’s Miss Julie in the remote, bleak beauty of the Eastern Cape Karoo. Transposed to a post-apartheid kitchen – a single night, both brutal and tender, unfolds between a black farm-labourer, the daughter of his master and the woman who has raised them both. The visceral struggles of contemporary South Africa are laid bare, as John and Mies Julie spiral in a deadly battle over power, sexuality, mothers and memory. Haunting and violent, intimate and epic, the characters struggle to address issues of reprisal and the reality of what can and cannot ever be recovered. Mies Julie is the winner of a number of awards including, the Best Of Edinburgh Fringe Award, an Edinburgh Fringe First Award and an Edinburgh Herald Angel Award. In December 2012, Mies Julie was listed in the Guardian's top ten best theatre picks of 2012 and in the Top Ten Plays of 2012 by the New York Times.