Strindberg: A Life by
Novelist, satirist, poet, photographer, painter, alchemist, and hellraiser—August Strindberg was all these, and yet he is principally known, in Arthur Miller's words, as'the mad inventor of modern theater'who led playwriting out of the polite drawing room into the snakepit of psychological warfare. This biography, supported by extensive new research, describes the eventful and complicated life of one of the great literary figures in world literature. Sue Prideaux organizes Strindberg's story into a gripping and highly readable narrative that both illuminates his work and restores humor and humanity to a man often shrugged off as too difficult. Best known for his play Miss Julie, Strindberg wrote sixty other plays, three books of poetry, eighteen novels, and nine autobiographies. Even more than most, Strindberg is a writer whose life sheds invaluable light on his work. Prideaux explores Strindberg's many art-life connections, revealing for the first time the originals who inspired the characters of Miss Julie and her servant Jean, the bizarre circumstances in which the play was written, and the real suicide that inspired the shattering ending of the play. Recounting the playwright's journey through the'real'world as well as the world of belief and ideas, Prideaux marks the centenary of Strindberg's death in 1912 with a biography worthy of the man who laid the foundation for Western drama through the twentieth century and even into the twenty-first
The Cambridge Companion to August Strindberg (e-book) by
Literature, Area Studies, English Literature: General Interest, European Literature, European Studies, Drama, Theatre, Performance Studies, European Theatre
Strindberg on Drama and Theatre (e-book) by
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Scandinavian
An essential resource for those interested in one of the most influential modern playwrights and for the dedicated theatre lover.
Strindberg and Modernist Theatre by
Despite the profound influence exerted by August Strindberg on the development of modernist theatre and drama, the myth persisted that his plays - particularly such later works as A Dream Play, To Damascus, and The Ghost Sonata - are somehow 'unperformable'. Nothing could be farther from the truth, as this book sets out to demonstrate by providing a detailed performance analysis of the major works created after the period of personal crisis which Strindberg called his Inferno. Ranging from the early productions of Max Reinhardt and Olof Molander to the reinterpretations of Robert Lepage, Robert Wilson and Ingmar Bergman in our own day, this study explores the crucial impact that this writer's allusive (and elusive) method of playwriting has had on the changing nature of the theatrical experience. Each chapter ends with a section devoted to innovative Strindberg performances on the contemporary stage.
Locating August Strindberg's Prose: Modernism, Transnationalism, and Setting by
The setting of a novel is more than just an anonymous, interchangeable backdrop. In Locating August Strindberg's Prose, Anna Westerståhl Stenport argues that spatial setting is a key - though often neglected - tool for exploring the fundamentals of European literary modernism.Stenport examines the importance of location by exploring the prose of Swedish exile August Strindberg (1849-1912), challenging previous studies of the author that have focused on identity and subject formation. Strindberg wrote in both Swedish and French, situating his stories in various places across Europe - from Berlin to the French countryside, the Austrian Alps, and Stockholm - to purposely destabilize concepts of national belonging, language, and literary history. Close readings of Strindberg's prose find that his boundary-challenging narratives redefine and rewrite the meaning of a marginal literary identity. By contextualizing Strindberg against other early modernists, including Kafka, Conrad, Rilke, and Breton, Stenport emphasizes the burgeoning transnationality of literature at the turn of the last century.
August Strindberg: painter, photographer, writer by
Freshly commissioned essays on Strindberg's photography by David Campany and on the artist's scenography for Mary Stuart complete this illuminating survey of a remarkable artist. This beautifully illustrated book accompanies the first major exhibition of Strindberg's paintings in the UK, to be held at Tate Modern in 2005.
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Tschandala by
A man in 1690s Sweden creates conflict when he cannot accept a gypsy man with whom he is spending the summer.
The Dance of Death by
Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price
Strindberg's chilling anatomy of a marriage, in which the two partners duel with each other until one is utterly defeated.
Edgar and Alice, embittered husband and wife, live on an army base on a Swedish island. Alice calls it 'Little Hell', and it's about to get worse.
Written in 1900 and consisting of two full-length plays, August Strindberg's The Dance of Death is full of destruction and bitterness, laced with grim humour. Both parts are included in this volume - though usually only the first is staged.
This English version of The Dance of the Death in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series is translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.
Selected Poems of August Strindberg by
August Strindberg (1849 1912) was one of the great innovators of modern drama as well as a novelist, poet, and master of the Swedish language. In this collection, "Selected Poems of August Strindberg, "editor and translator Lotta M. Lofgren has chosen poems from all three volumes of Strindberg s verse "Poems in Verse and Prose, Sleepwalking Nights on Awake Days, "and" Word Play and Minor Art "to illustrate to the English-speaking reader the development, strengths, and versatility of Strindberg the poet. Lofgren explains, Although August Strindberg is internationally acknowledged as a pioneering realist, expressionist, and surrealist playwright, his poetry is still relatively unknown outside Sweden. The only English translation of his] poems to date is the 1978 translation of "Sleepwalking Nights "by Arvid Paulson . . . that gives an incomplete and misleading picture of Strindberg s poetry. Lofgren s translation seeks to correct that picture. Strindberg s stature as a dramatist alone may be adequate justification for offering a translation of his verse, but his poetry stands well on its own. All three volumes broke new ground and paved the way for younger generations of poets. Lofgren hopes that her translation will not only introduce Strindberg s verse to English-speaking readers but will also inspire other scholars to revisit his poetry and give it the attention it deserves. "Selected Poems of August Strindberg "received the American-Scandinavian Foundation s Translation Prize in 2000."
Miss Julie and Other Plays by
This edition embraces Strindberg's crucial transition from Naturalism to Modernism, from his two finest achievements as a psychological realist, The Father and Miss Julie, to the three plays in which he redefined the possibilities of European drama following his return to the theatre in 1898, A Dream Play, The Ghost Sonata, and The Dance of Death. Michael Robinson's highly performable translations are based on the authoritative texts of the new edition of Strindberg's collected works in Sweden and include the Preface to Miss Julie, Strindberg's manifesto of theatrical naturalism.
Strindberg: Other Sides: Seven Plays by
Strindberg - Other Sides: Seven Plays presents fresh translations based upon the new national Swedish edition of Strindberg's works, hewing close to Strindberg's techniques of «scoring» his scripts for actors and directors. The plays are illuminated in introductory essays revaluating Strindberg's role in transforming theatre (and art) with his extraordinary new forms. The Ghost Sonata is a keystone in the construction of the expressionist theatre; in The Pelican Strindberg goes «over the top» with his own form of psychological drama until it soars beyond the realm of realism; The Dance of Death is a battle of the sexes rendered absurd, as a series of games played against the void; and Carl XII is an epic play portraying the last months of the king who brought Sweden's history as a great power to an end. Three one-acts from the late 1880s foreshadow the striking ambiguity of Strindberg's later works.
Miss Julie - W DVD 3261 - 1 copy available at Rose Hill
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