The Cambridge Companion to August Strindberg

A collection of essays on the highly colourful life and work of August Strindberg - dramatist, novelist, autobiographer and painter.

Autorentext

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

Zusammenfassung
Leading international scholars address the highly colourful life and work of August Strindberg, one of the most enduring of nineteenth-century dramatists. Focussing mainly on his most frequently-performed plays, the Companion also discusses his novels, including the vivid Inferno, his much-publicised hostility to women and his lifelong interest in the occult.

Inhalt

Chronology; List of Strindberg's works in Swedish and English; Part I. The Biographical and Cultural Context; 1. August Strindberg: the art and science of self-dramatization LINDA HAVERTY RUGG; 2. Strindberg and the woman question MARGARETHA FAHLGREN; Part II. The Works: 3. Learning to speak: Strindberg and the novel ULF OLSSON; 4. The Son of a Servant and the autobiographical fictions PER STOUNBJERG; 5. Miss Julie, naturalism, 'The Battle of the Brains', and sexual desire ROSS SHIDELER; 6. Strindberg and comedy HANS-GÖRAN EKMAN; 7. Crisis and change: Strindberg the unconscious modernist GÖRAN STOCKENSTRÖM; 8. A modernist dramaturgy: A Dream Play and The Dance of Death ESZTER SALCZER; 9. The chamber plays LYNN R. WILKINSON; 10. The history plays MATTHEW H. WIKANDER; Part III. Performance and Legacy: 11. Strindberg in the theatre FREDERICK AND LISE-LONE MARKER; 12. Bergman's Strindberg EGIL TÖRNQVIST; 13. Strindberg and modern drama: some lines of influence FREDDIE ROKEM; Bibliography.