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Johan August Strindberg (/ ˈ s t r ɪ n (d) b ɜːr ɡ /, [1] Swedish: [ˈǒːɡɵst ˈstrɪ̂nːdbærj] ⓘ; 22 January 1849 – 14 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, and painter.
August Strindberg (born Jan. 22, 1849, Stockholm, Swed.—died May 14, 1912, Stockholm) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, and short-story writer, who combined psychology and Naturalism in a new kind of European drama that evolved into Expressionist drama.
August Strindberg was a playwright, theatre practitioner, novelist, essayist, dramatist, and painter. Though outside Sweden he is well known for his plays but not his other works. A prolific writer, he wrote about 60 plays.
Falling to Earth, Only to Witness a Pole Dance. The National Asian-American Theater Company’s “Dream Play” adapts the Strindberg drama about the daughter of a goddess who sets out to ...
Notable Plays | August Strindberg : His Life and Works. Miss Julie (1888): Miss Julie premiered in November 1906 at ‘The People’s Theatre’. It’s a one-act play set in the kitchen of a Count’s manor house with only three characters Julie, Jean, and Christine on stage.
The low key, methodical biography by Gunnar Brandell’s Strindberg – ett författarliv (1983-89 ) in four volumes is the most comprehensive, detailed, and most traditionally academic. The second work, August Strindberg (1979), by Olof Lagercrantz, follows closely and animates the human being and the writer.
The Best Plays of August Strindberg. The Yin to Henrik Ibsen’s Yang, August Strindberg is one of the greatest playwrights of all time. A contemporary to Chekhov and Ibsen, Strindberg offered something totally different to both of those great writers. Dreams, surrealism and sex.