Strindberg: a life
Presents 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. 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 warfa…
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- Full title :Strindberg : a life / Sue Prideaux.
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Presents 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.
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. -- Jacket.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Yale University Press
- Place of Publication:New Haven
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
The Physical Object
- Description:xii, 371 pages, 80 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations (some color) ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780300136937, 0300136935, 9780300198065, 030019806X
- oclc:ocn755080529
- LC Classification:PT9815
- Dewey Decimal:839.72/67
Table of Contents
Miss Julie's kitchen -- The son of a servant -- Basic training -- The freethinker -- Playing with fire -- A short Swedish honeymoon -- Rabble rouser -- Under the ice -- Madness and modernity -- Experimental theatre -- The black piglet -- Frida, no stranger to drama -- French vivisections -- Inferno -- Out of inferno -- Harriet Bosse -- The intimate theatre -- The blue tower.
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