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Strindberg on Drama and Theatre
Birgitta Steene (Ed.)
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Description for Strindberg on Drama and Theatre
Paperback. An essential resource for those interested in one of the most influential modern playwrights and for the dedicated theatre lover. Editor(s): Steene, Birgitta; Tornqvist, Egil. Num Pages: 206 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 360.
Sweden’s August Strindberg (1849-1912) has long been recognised as one of the leading dramatists around the turn of the last century. His electrifying theatre work resonated with the public in his lifetime, and continues to grip playwrights and audiences today. A restless innovator of various drama forms, he was a source of inspiration for Eugene O’Neill, Samuel Beckett and Ingmar Bergman, and has proved seminal to the development of modern drama. His preface to Miss Julie and his prefatory note to A Dream Play are well known and often reprinted. What is less well known is that Strindberg frequently commented ... Read more
Sweden’s August Strindberg (1849-1912) has long been recognised as one of the leading dramatists around the turn of the last century. His electrifying theatre work resonated with the public in his lifetime, and continues to grip playwrights and audiences today. A restless innovator of various drama forms, he was a source of inspiration for Eugene O’Neill, Samuel Beckett and Ingmar Bergman, and has proved seminal to the development of modern drama. His preface to Miss Julie and his prefatory note to A Dream Play are well known and often reprinted. What is less well known is that Strindberg frequently commented ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press Netherlands
Number of pages
206
Condition
New
Number of Pages
206
Place of Publication
Amsterdam, Netherlands
ISBN
9789053560204
SKU
V9789053560204
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About Birgitta Steene (Ed.)
Swedish-born Birgitta Steene, PhD, is professor emerita in cinema studies and Scandinavian literature at the University of Washington and has also been a professor in the film department at Stockholm University. She is the recipient of an honoris causa doctorate from her alma mater, the University of Uppsala. The author of numerous books and articles on Scandinavian drama and film, ... Read more
Reviews for Strindberg on Drama and Theatre
What a gift it is to hear Strindberg's clear and daring voice and to experience how truly modern he was in his thinking. His understanding of the theatre and the art of acting and his constant search for truth and meaning
in everything and everyone
demands that we stay truthful to his plays and to ourselves. Bo Corre, ... Read more
in everything and everyone
demands that we stay truthful to his plays and to ourselves. Bo Corre, ... Read more