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Johan August Strindberg (/ ˈ s t r ɪ n (d) b ɜːr ɡ /, Swedish: [ˈǒːɡɵst ˈstrɪ̂nːdbærj] ⓘ; 22 January 1849 – 14 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, and painter.
May 10, 2024 · 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.
May 20, 2019 · Tremendously influential in both Europe and the United States, August Strindberg (22 January 1849 – 14 May 1912) was begrudgingly praised by Henrik Ibsen as one who would be greater than he, and more generously lauded half a century later by Eugene O’Neill as the writer to whom the American playwright owed his greatest debt.…
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 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.
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.
August Strindberg. Writer: The Stronger. He started to study at the Uppsala University but dropped out to pursue an economically unstable career as a journalist. In 1872 he published the first of his many masterpieces, 'Mäster Olof'.
August Strindberg, (born Jan. 22, 1849, Stockholm, Swed.—died May 14, 1912, Stockholm), Swedish playwright and novelist. While working as a journalist, he wrote the historical drama Mäster Olof (1872); though rejected by the national theatre and not produced until 1890, it is now considered the first modern Swedish drama.
August Strindberg - Playwright, Naturalism, Expressionism: To the end, Strindberg debated current social and political ideas (returning to the radical views of his youth) in polemical articles, while his philosophy was expounded in the aphoristic Zones of the Spirit (1907–12).
