Strindberg, August

The fairytale play has a venerable history in the theater. This study examines four plays by August Strindberg as analogs of the fairytale play. Lucky Per's Journey, Keys to the Kingdom of Heaven, To Damascus I and The Great Highway are examined in order to link them to the folk…

This dissertation is an analysis of the so-called "Inferno" trilogy, written by August Strindberg from 1897 to 1898. Although the author wrote it in French--except for the last pages of the third volume--these texts have been mostly studied in Swedish translation. Based on the o…

This dissertation analyzes the phenomenon of the transformation of mythical women through the grotesque in select twentieth century drama. Feminist rereading and re-visionist criticism are applied to expose, define, and understand the roots and the representations of patriarchal…