THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO AUGUST STRINDBERG.

ROBINSON, Michael (Ed.), Linda Havertey Rugg, Margaretha Fahlgren, Ulf Olsson, Per Stounbjerg, Ross Shideler, Et Al.

ISBN 10: 052160852X / ISBN 13: 9780521608527

Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2009

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8vo. pp xxxvi, 187, [3]. Publisher's colour illustrated covers with red and yellow lettering. Illustrations in black and white. ISBN: 9780521608527 Very good indeed.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO AUGUST STRINDBERG.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 052160852X
• ISBN 13: 9780521608527
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Michael Robinson is Professor Emeritus of Drama and Scandinavian Studies at the University of East Anglia, Norwich.