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-Aug…
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…
Strindberg was one of the most extreme and most influential theatrical innovators of the late 19th century. The five plays translated here are those upon which Strindberg's international reputation as a dramatist principally rests.
Strindberg was one of the most extreme and most influential theatrical innovators of the late 19th century. The five plays translated here are those upon which Strindberg's international reputation as a dramatist principally rests.