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The Cambridge Companion to August Strindberg

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Cambridge Companion to August Strindberg
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Michael Robinson
SeriesCambridge Companions to Literature
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:226
Dimensions(mm): Height 228,Width 152
Category/GenreLiterary studies - c 1800 to c 1900
Literary studies - plays and playwrights
ISBN/Barcode 9780521608527
ClassificationsDewey:839.826
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 10 Halftones, unspecified

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 24 September 2009
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

August Strindberg is one of the most enduring of nineteenth-century dramatists, and is also an internationally recognised novelist, autobiographer, and painter. This Companion presents contributions by leading international scholars on different aspects of Strindberg's highly colourful life and work. The essays focus primarily on his most celebrated plays; these include the Naturalist Dramas, The Father and Miss Julie; the experimental dramas with which he created a true modernist theatre - To Damascus and A Dream Play; and the Chamber Plays of 1908 which, like so much of his work, exerted a powerful influence on much later twentieth-century drama. His plays are contextualised for what they contribute both to the history of drama and developments in theatre practice, and other essays clarify the enormous importance to these dramas of his other work, most notably the autobiographical novel Inferno, and his lifelong interest in science, the occult, sexual politics, and the visual arts.

Author Biography

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

Reviews

'This is a high-calibre, manageable collection of essays.' Laura Silverman, WhatsOnStage.com