Strindberg, (Johan) August
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Strindberg, (Johan) August (1849–1912), Swedish playwright and author. His first important play,
Master Olof (1881), was followed by others, including
The Father (1887),
Miss Julie (1888), and
Creditors (1889), works which combine a highly aggressive and original version of
naturalism with a sense of the extreme and pathological. His later works are tense, symbolic, psychic dramas, marked by a sense of suffering and a longing for salvation and absolution; they include
To Damascus (1898–1901; 3 parts),
The Dance of Death (1901),
A Dream Play (1902), and
The Ghost Sonata (1907), all distinctive and innovative works which influenced the psychological and symbolic dramas of
O'Neill and the writers of the Theatre of the
Absurd.
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Johan August Strindberg. (Reviews).
Magazine article from: Scandinavian Studies; 12/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; * Jan Myrdal. Johan August Strindberg. Stockholm: Natur och Kultur...is his modus operandi in Johan August Strindberg, for, make no mistake...is put to some odd uses in Johan August Strindberg. For instance, the book...
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 "Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland)")
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Strindberg's very Swedish sex scandal.
Magazine article from: Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland); 2/2/2008; 700+ words
; ...provoke quite the controversy for Strindberg's thoroughly modern miss...astute preface to this play, Strindberg wrote: "The fact that my tragedy...hand experience of growing up. Johan August Strindberg was born in Stockholm in 1849...
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 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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Theater: `Wanderings: A Strindberg Odyssey'.(VARIETY)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 6/5/1998; ; 407 words
; Theater: `Wanderings: A Strindberg Odyssey' 2 p.m. Sun...Nineteenth-century Swedish writer Johan August Strindberg, the son of a fallen aristocrat...plays as "The Ghost Sonata," Strindberg helped make European theater...
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The dilemma of naturalistic tragedy: Strindberg's Miss Julie.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Comparative Drama; 3/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; Until the time of Strindberg in the latter part of...tyranny of the past. When Strindberg had finished Miss Julie in the first week of August 1888, he promptly mailed...Jean (originally Johan), originates from...theatrical staging, Strindberg attempts to position...
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Ingmar Bergman: texts on a legendary artist.(Ingmar Bergman im Bleistift-Ton: Ein Werkportratt)(I begynnelsen var ordet: Ingmar Bergman och hans tidiga forfattarskap)(Lek och raseri: Ingmar Bergmans teater 1938-2002)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Scandinavian Studies; 3/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...consciously than for instance August Strindberg, whose childhood also...artistic material. And while Strindberg was anxious to see himself...family extensions. While Strindberg sought sympathy for his alter ego Johan, Bergman searches for...
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Quiet hell of a rotten relationship
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 9/16/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...favourite lines from Strindberg. "I wonder if there...subsequent breakdown of Johan and Marianne's marriage...shows just how perceptive Strindberg's remark remains...killer. We also saw Johan and Marianne again in...auspicious date of 8 August 2008
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Bergman's swan song difficult, rewarding
Newspaper article from: Daily Breeze; 7/8/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Henrik says he hopes Johan dies of some terrible disease; in another scene, Johan relishes telling his...misanthropic spirit of August Strindberg, Sweden's greatest...her hands, to visit Johan after all those years...
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'Saraband': Bergman's Dance of the Years
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 9/9/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...important influence, August Strindberg, and his excruciatingly...principal characters are Johan (Erland Josephson...more than 30 years. Johan has grown wealthy, querulous...Marianne, is complicated by Johan's estrangement from...
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Die Rückkehr
Magazine article from: Film - Dienst; 7/2/2002; ; 450 words
; ...Sonntagskinder"), Bille August (,,Die besten Absichten...Marianne (Liv Ullmann) und Johan (Erland Josephson) treffen...Cellistin. AIs Henrik von Johan einen Vorschuss auf das Erbe...eindringliches Psychodrama la Strindberg. ''Ich fhle mich vertraut...
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DESIGNERS LINING UP FOR MEN'S FASHION WEEK; J. LINDEBERG, JASON BUNIN AND JOHN BARTLETT TO JOIN TOMMY, CALVIN AND HUGO BOSS.
Magazine article from: Daily News Record; 1/28/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Feb. 8 to 15. For the first time, Swedish designer Johan Lindeberg will show his men's and women's collections...Sorbonne meets rock & roll, Wyatt Earp meets August Strindberg," and 75 percent of the looks will be men's. The...
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Johan August Strindberg
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Johan August Strindberg , 1849-1912, Swedish dramatist...in dramatic and literary styles. Strindberg was the unwanted fourth child of a...tutor, journalist, and librarian. Strindberg's first mature drama, Master Olaf...
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Strindberg, (Johan) August
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Strindberg, (Johan) August (1849–1912) Swedish dramatist and novelist. Strindberg focused on subjective, psychological experience as the location...
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Swedish literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...circle of writers included the eminent poet and critic Johan Henrik Kellgren. The great scientist Carolus Linnaeus...The first true realism appeared with the dramatist August Strindberg and a group of writers called the Young Sweden, among...
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