| 单词 | Strindberg |
| 例句 | But stripping Strindberg down to his writing, I found that his frequent muse — in addition to his three wives — was his hometown, Stockholm. Stockholm as Strindberg’s Muse 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z The Nordic Heritage Museum in Seattle is marking the 100th anniversary of the death of Swedish playwright August Strindberg with a free reading Tuesday night. Free reading of August Strindberg play at Nordic Heritage Museum 2011-04-11T22:18:05Z But she sticks pretty closely to Strindberg’s elevated theatrical discourse, which often feels as if we were hearing people’s thoughts as well as their words. Liv Ullmann: “It’s still so difficult to be a woman in society” 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z “I don’t look at this as a realist piece any more than Strindberg’s ‘Miss Julie,’ ” he said. Paddy Considine Directs ?Tyrannosaur,? Starring Peter Mullan 2011-11-12T22:00:05Z It's a bit like the scene in Strindberg's A Dream Play. Baz Luhrmann on The Great Gatsby: 'Fitzgerald was a clown, just like I am' 2013-05-16T18:30:01Z She laughs and shrugs off the idea of acting in Strindberg, saying: “That nasty misogynist!” Bergman: why are the great director's women all tragi-sexual goddesses? 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z But then, you wouldn’t expect August Strindberg to create anything called “The Red Mitten.” Events for Children in NYC This Week 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z Strindberg's play was written in 1888 and first performed a year later, and pioneered the use of theatrical naturalism to tell its parable of class and power. Jessica Chastain to star in film version of Miss Julie 2013-01-31T13:01:49Z It’s an experience not unlike reading Strindberg for the first time and being jolted wide awake by its outrageousness. Reviews: ‘Mies Julie’ and ‘Dance of Death,’ Love and Madness in Strindberg 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z Strindberg was born on Riddarholmen, an island near the southern end of Drottninggatan, and died in this apartment, on the northern end of the street. Stockholm as Strindberg’s Muse 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z And, while we revived the naturalistic plays of Ibsen and Strindberg, we turned a blind eye to their epic or expressionist works. X is for xenophobia 2012-05-22T12:27:52Z It’s as balanced a picture of gender warfare as Strindberg was capable of producing.” Alan Rickman Directs Strindberg?s ?Creditors? at BAM 2010-04-10T03:49:00Z Brantley praised "its unsparing and ruthlessly efficient analysis of what we think of as love as a primordial exercise in power", drawing comparisons to August Strindberg and Harold Pinter. British plays storm New York Times top 10 theatre list 2012-12-18T14:11:54Z He modeled himself on Marlene Dietrich and Oscar Wilde and English music-hall performers and James Dean and, I don’t know, the antihero of some Strindberg play that existed only in his imagination. Rebel, alien, cynic, dreamer: David Bowie’s chimerical genius, and cultural importance, go way beyond pop music 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Strindberg’s sexual ambivalence dissolves into something even more all-devouring in this landscape of stolen pasts and indeterminate presents. Reviews: ‘Mies Julie’ and ‘Dance of Death,’ Love and Madness in Strindberg 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z The patriarchal world of August Strindberg’s dour late-19th-century tragedy “Miss Julie” — with its rigid social hierarchy of masters and servants, and its entrenched puritanical ethos — may seem remote to American audiences. ‘Miss Julie’ Stars Jessica Chastain and Colin Farrell 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z As a youth, he was fascinated by poetry and philosophy until, at 14, he was taken to see a production of August Strindberg's The Ghost Sonata, directed by Blin, who became his spiritual father. Laurent Terzieff obituary 2010-07-21T17:58:00Z Strindberg wrote in various genres — novels, articles, essays, poems — but outside Sweden he is best known for his plays, including the oft-staged “Miss Julie.” Stockholm as Strindberg’s Muse 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z The great, mad Swedish playwright August Strindberg lamented that the 19th century theater had become “a Bible in picture for those who cannot read what is written or printed.” At South Coast Rep, a stunning, gravity-defying stab at 'Moby Dick' 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z More generally – and the film is necessarily vague on this score – from some non-specific Scandinavian malaise: an all-court rumble of Hamlet, Kierkegaard, Ibsen and Strindberg, barely held in check by a sweaty headband. Game, set and spats… a grand slam of tennis movies 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z But she reread the play when she was preparing "A Streetcar Named Desire" because she knew that Williams had been inspired by the Strindberg play. Liv Ullmann follows her own muse to write, direct 'Miss Julie' 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z But Strindberg, who held to the courage of his perversity, tweaked that formula like no other dramatist before him in his naturalistic plays from the late 1880s. | 'Creditors': Deconstructing Marriage: Strindberg at Harvey Theater 2010-04-21T22:25:00Z Links of this kind continually arise from Bournonville ballets: a contemporary and friend of Hans Christian Andersen’s, he sometimes seems to anticipate Ibsen and Strindberg. Dance Review: Dancing Danes (No Holy Water) 2011-06-10T22:28:23Z The time is, obviously, today, and Ms. Morisseau’s work suggests that little has changed in the world, in terms of rigid divisions between class, since Strindberg wrote the play in 1888. ‘Bastards of Strindberg,’ Four Short Plays at the Lion 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Although the trade magazine Variety found the acting impressive, it said Ullmann's adaptation of the Strindberg classic fails to work on film. Celebrations of summer spark tragedy in Liv Ullmann's 'Miss Julie' 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z It was quite new in its optical, even if you may compare it to Orwell's works - a bit nearer to Strindberg's and Ibsen's tones, those of the eternal 'enemy of the people'. World literature tour: Indonesia 2011-07-18T11:22:40Z Was he, perhaps, inspired by Strindberg’s A Dream Play, featuring Agnes, the daughter of a god who descends to Earth to investigate humanity, to sympathise and bear witness to human pain? Bergman: why are the great director's women all tragi-sexual goddesses? 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z As the author of previous biographies of Edvard Munch and August Strindberg, Prideaux clearly knows her way around the world of European high modernism. Two New Books Confront Nietzsche and His Ideas 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z The marital combatants in August Strindberg’s “The Dance of Death” give “irreconcilable differences” a bad name. In defense of anger: A critic's appeal to playwrights to let their tempers fly 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z Strindberg’s original characters, a willful young aristocrat and her father’s valet, have been reimagined as the daughter of an affluent Boer farmer and his favorite black servant in contemporary Karoo, South Africa. Reviews: ‘Mies Julie’ and ‘Dance of Death,’ Love and Madness in Strindberg 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z It’s hard to picture the street as Strindberg experienced it, however, as it’s now packed with international chain stores and multistory gallerias. Stockholm as Strindberg’s Muse 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z I began on Sodermalm in southern Stockholm, where Strindberg set the opening scene of his breakthrough novel, “The Red Room,” a scathing satire of 1870s Swedish society that is considered the first modern Swedish novel. Stockholm as Strindberg’s Muse 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z According to Nina Nelson, my guide at the museum, Strindberg bought prodigious quantities of coffee beans from the shop and would clip and affix the image to his correspondence. Stockholm as Strindberg’s Muse 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z Ullmann adapted and directed the film, which opens in limited release on Friday, from Swedish playwright August Strindberg's play of the same name. Celebrations of summer spark tragedy in Liv Ullmann's 'Miss Julie' 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z The research and development that Strindberg pursued more than a century ago needs to press on. Oh, the dreaded intermission: Long plays at a time when shorter is sweeter 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z A Swedish Love Triangle, With Some Slight Revisions August Strindberg isn’t the first playwright who springs to mind when the phrase “comedy of manners” is uttered. Theater Review: ‘Playing With Fire’ at the New School for Drama 2012-05-28T21:26:14Z But Strindberg would no doubt be mightily impressed by the impressionistic approach to theatrical illustration. At South Coast Rep, a stunning, gravity-defying stab at 'Moby Dick' 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z After a surfeit of Miss Julies in London, it's refreshing to find this rare August Strindberg one-act play popping up in an attractive space above a South Kensington pub. Playing with Fire – review 2013-06-04T17:49:06Z After much hesitation — “Baudelaire or Strindberg? Flaubert or Dostoyevsky?” — he finally settles on just two, the Bible and “The Communist Manifesto.” His Short Story Inspired ‘Rashomon.’ His Life Has Inspired a Novel. 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Baker’s signature hyper-realism makes room for an irrational dimension that lightly evokes the supernatural enigmas of Maurice Maeterlinck and August Strindberg. Annie Baker's 'Antipodes' opens a door to the coveted writers room 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z Later, I had enough to do in teaching European theatre at Warwick University, getting students to understand Ibsen, Chekhov, Strindberg, Wedekind, Pirandello, Brecht, Beckett and Artaud, without making time for Shaw. George Bernard Shaw and feminism 2011-01-23T22:30:01Z The bodies of Andrée and his companions, Knut Fraenkel and Nils Strindberg, were eventually brought back to Sweden where they were accorded a lavish state funeral. The Ice Balloon by Alec Wilkinson – review 2013-03-31T13:00:01Z Their activities are as strange and unrelated as the vignettes in August Strindberg’s “A Dream Play” or the myriad miniature scenarios in canvases by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the Flemish painter. Review: In ‘Elijah Green,’ Archetypes in Search of Meaning 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Miss Julie comes to contemporary Appalachia with all her sexual and psychological baggage in tow in “Cattywampus,” a raw and raucous updating of August Strindberg’s classic, written and directed by Robert Cucuzza. | 'Cattywampus': ?Cattywampus? at Incubator Arts Project - Review 2012-01-12T23:37:24Z If you can, you should visit: Standing there looking at Strindberg’s desk, with his pens, papers and books, gives writers a certain familiar feeling of discipline, dreams and isolation. Read Your Way Through Stockholm 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z Given Strindberg’s reputation as a misogynist — and Mr. Thompson’s power in conveying raw torment — you might assume that your sympathies would lie entirely with the Captain. Review: Domestic Doom, Fiercely Conveyed, in Ibsen and Strindberg Plays 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z They are both exercises in Punch and Judy psychodrama, a staple of Western literature at least since Strindberg choreographed his “Dance of Death” 110 years ago. | 'Side Effects': When Golden Couple Melts Down, Puddles Ensue 2011-06-20T02:01:01Z It's not hard to make out the influence of Bergman's hero, Strindberg, in this small-scale, bleak piece, and Tom Scutt's design catches something of Strindberg's seascapes, with a marine and glowering palette. Women, Power and Politics; Through a Glass Darkly 2010-06-19T23:15:00Z The emphasis on recurrence and repetition echoes Strindberg’s “Ghost Sonata” and Beckett’s “Play” and more recently Enda Walsh’s works, in which characters feel compelled to revisit and re-create past trauma. Review: ‘This Was the End,’ a Spectral Riff on Chekhov 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z Strindberg’s ever-shocking 1900 drama shows a husband and wife celebrating their 25th anniversary on an isolated island military outpost with bitter games of recrimination that might just turn fatal. Finding the Sweet, Stinging Salt in Plays of Confinement 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z Ibsen even kept a portrait of Strindberg above his desk to gall him into creativity, while Strindberg was infuriated by Ibsen’s celebrity. Review: Domestic Doom, Fiercely Conveyed, in Ibsen and Strindberg Plays 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z But she has never raged quite so fiercely as she does in this searing and fearless new version by Yael Farber, which reinvents Strindberg's play and transposes it to modern South Africa. Mies Julie – Edinburgh review 2012-08-08T11:53:50Z From Strindberg onwards dramatists have realised the power of unbroken action. Theatre intervals: is it curtains? 2011-03-01T16:45:47Z The Stockholm that Strindberg guides readers through was sometimes depicted as an unsophisticated backwater. Stockholm as Strindberg’s Muse 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z Laughing, she said of Strindberg, “He understands this with the clarity, the sort of scary mad insight of a madman.” Alan Rickman Directs Strindberg?s ?Creditors? at BAM 2010-04-10T03:49:00Z O’Neill was enthralled by Strindberg and Ibsen at the time, and it shows. Review: Stories Eugene O’Neill Told When He Was Very Young 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z Just consider the hours of prickly pleasure provided by those nasty Macbeths, or Edward Albee’s George and Martha, or the squabbling spouses in Strindberg, Ibsen and O’Neill. Theater Review: ‘Stockholm,’ by Bryony Lavery, Dissects a Marriage 2014-03-13T02:00:01Z In transposing Strindberg’s psychosexual pas de deux from 19th-century Sweden to an economically distressed Pennsylvania, he has created reasonable analogues for the markers of class that divide the play’s central characters. | 'Cattywampus': ?Cattywampus? at Incubator Arts Project - Review 2012-01-12T23:37:24Z The effervescent Ms. Brie finds the fighter underneath Ruth’s artiste — her co-stars nickname her “Strindberg” — as she throws herself into building a Russian-villain character. Review: In Netflix’s ‘GLOW,’ Empowerment Comes Through Power Slams 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Most interpretations of Strindberg’s original text are centered on the psychosexual unraveling of its title character, an imperious, death-courting figure. Reviews: ‘Mies Julie’ and ‘Dance of Death,’ Love and Madness in Strindberg 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z "Realism," Ochoa shakily claims, "took hold in art and literature by the mid-1900s" — a half-century after Strindberg, Ibsen and Chekhov liberated the theater from melodrama. 'Stella!' is a backstage portrait of acting guru Stella Adler 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z The following month, two men at the National Theater got into fisticuffs at the end of a performance of “Julie,” a play inspired by the work of August Strindberg. Bachelorettes, Brawls and Body Cameras: A Night at the Theater in London 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z The Dance of Death A military officer and his wife, a former actress, engage in a battle of wills in Conor McPherson’s adaptation of Strindberg’s classic dark comedy. The week ahead in L.A. theater, Sept. 17-24: 'Fixed,' 'The Red Shoes' and more 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z Although he claimed, for instance, that he only wanted to honor a playwright’s work, he often meddled with the scripts — his “Ghosts” interpolated Ibsen’s text with some Strindberg. A Birthday Tribute to the Other Ingmar Bergman 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Dating from 1933, like On the Rocks, it was about a travelling theatre company who both transform and undermine a small town by offering them by a progressive diet of Ibsen, Chekhov and Strindberg. Canadian theatre comes into its own 2011-08-01T15:35:18Z When Strindberg raised his blinds, he saw the reflection of gas lamps in the windows across Narvavagen. Stockholm as Strindberg’s Muse 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z The Norwegian Ibsen and the Swedish Strindberg, who was 20 years the younger, were intensely aware of each other’s work. Review: Domestic Doom, Fiercely Conveyed, in Ibsen and Strindberg Plays 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Soon I was directing a series of Strindberg and Brecht, and devising a play set in the world of ballroom dancing that became Strictly Ballroom. Portrait of the artist: Baz Luhrmann, director 2010-10-25T21:30:00Z But in Sweden, August Strindberg remains lodged under the country’s proverbial skin. Stockholm as Strindberg’s Muse 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z No wonder, then that he was at the heart of a festival highlight — Mr. Stone’s memorable, four-and-a-half-hour “Hotel Strindberg.” A Birthday Tribute to the Other Ingmar Bergman 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Howard Brenton's new version of Strindberg's Dances of Death previews at the Gate. Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-05-24T12:35:00Z Biography was, he said, a peculiarly British phenomenon: "If you want a biography of Proust, or Mann, or Goethe, or Strindberg, or Ibsen, you found yourself reading a British writer." Michael Holroyd laments the decline of biography 2011-08-18T18:08:26Z Ibsen, Chekhov, Goldsmith, Strindberg and Schiller all received medical training, and you could argue that both disciplines involve careful performance rituals and a degree of flamboyant mystification. In Two Minds: A Biography of Jonathan Miller by Kate Bassett – review 2012-12-12T08:00:01Z Joyce nudges Ibsen over into August Strindberg territory, where the derision and the desires run a little wilder. Unconventional 'A Master Builder' is an odd success 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z I would like to do some Chekhov and Strindberg. Marie Mullen in 'Beauty Queen of Leenane': Daughter and mother, victim and villain 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z "So, I started to read 'Miss Julie' and saw why Williams loved Strindberg," she explained. Celebrations of summer spark tragedy in Liv Ullmann's 'Miss Julie' 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z While a student, he lived in the same apartment building as the Swedish playwright August Strindberg. Review | Who was Max Jacob? A poet, friend of Picasso and, a new biography shows, a man who defied easy labels 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z After appearing in August Strindberg's Miss Julie at Manchester's Royal Exchange two years ago, she and director Sarah Frankcom were discussing what to do next. Maxine Peake hails her sporting hero 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Strindberg’s “Miss Julie” was always a shocker, with its raw depiction of a death-tempting, socially forbidden love affair in a world that depended on people’s knowing their places. Theater Review: Yael Farber’s ‘Mies Julie,’ at St. Ann’s Warehouse 2012-11-13T03:00:00Z But after seeing Ms. Arbus’s double feature, you may be excused for thinking that Strindberg might written exactly the same words. Review: Domestic Doom, Fiercely Conveyed, in Ibsen and Strindberg Plays 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z The presence of Ibsen — and his wife and his rival playwright, August Strindberg — are the weak spots of this production. A Victorian murderer, robots and a waiting room for heaven 2011-03-01T01:49:38Z A Sly Suggestion Is All It May Take to Kill a Marriage In the world of August Strindberg, where everyone is always armed and dangerous, it takes only 90 minutes to destroy a marriage. | 'Creditors': Deconstructing Marriage: Strindberg at Harvey Theater 2010-04-21T22:25:00Z August Strindberg’s heated drama about the combustion that occurs when a footman and a count’s daughter spend a tempestuous night together has remained surprisingly present on both stage and screen. ‘Bastards of Strindberg,’ Four Short Plays at the Lion 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z This week, she’ll take Miss Julie to the Toronto film festival: another play, by August Strindberg, written three years earlier than Salome. Jessica Chastain: ‘I’d love to do a superhero movie’ 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z “I think Strindberg is honest about male misogyny, his own included,” Mr. Greig said. Alan Rickman Directs Strindberg?s ?Creditors? at BAM 2010-04-10T03:49:00Z Sex and spiritual violence inform these adapted August Strindberg plays, running in repertory at Classic Stage. 9 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z There was a Strindberg storm whose dark overtook me. Mourning in Paris 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z She hasn't played Broadway in a decade, since starring alongside Ian McKellen in a revival of August Strindberg's Dance of Death. Elizabeth II, part II: Helen Mirren could play the Queen onstage 2012-06-21T12:41:13Z A half-century in theater brought him major roles in plays by Albee, Strindberg, Turgenev and Noel Coward, and a couple of Tony Awards for his mantel. Robot & Frank: An Endearing Showcase for Langella's Star Turn 2012-08-16T14:29:17Z In a forthcoming study, Pinter: Acts of Power, Robert Gordon devotes a whole chapter to Moonlight, describing it as a late masterpiece and comparing it with Strindberg's ghost-dramas. Harold Pinter's Moonlight at the Donmar 2011-04-01T10:54:25Z Unlike the Strindberg, though, “Elijah Green” has none of the logic of a dream. Review: In ‘Elijah Green,’ Archetypes in Search of Meaning 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z These are always exciting actors to watch, well equipped to handle the intensity and intimacy of August Strindberg's passion play, which Ullmann adapts all too faithfully. In 'Miss Julie,' Liv Ullmann is too faithful to Strindberg play 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Ullmann said she was directing the Tennessee Williams play "A Streetcar Named Desire" in Australia when she realized how much he had been influenced by Strindberg. Celebrations of summer spark tragedy in Liv Ullmann's 'Miss Julie' 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z The trademark of Mr. Stone’s emerging career seems to be high-concept sets: an enclosed transparent box in “Yerma,” a three-story grid of rooms in “Hotel Strindberg,” a revolving abode in “Ibsen House.” 7 More Adventurous Theater Directors to Look Out For 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z Anyone who thinks that mixed emotions are wishy-washy never met the work of August Strindberg. Reviews: ‘Mies Julie’ and ‘Dance of Death,’ Love and Madness in Strindberg 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z Strindberg folded the legend into a short story that he set here, written in 1898 and later published in the German avant-garde journal Quickborn with eerie illustrations by the painter Edvard Munch. Swedish Islands Offer an Escape From Stockholm 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z Audience members may find themselves thinking at moments of the truth-and-illusion games played by the couples in Strindberg’s “Dance of Death,” Pinter’s “Old Times” and in particular Mr. Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Theater Review: ‘Tender Napalm’ by Philip Ridley at 59E59 Theaters 2012-08-30T02:00:15Z Even if Strindberg hazily sketches in the three other characters, the piece rings intriguing variations on the eternal triangle and seems wholly modern in its distilled, blackly comic power. Playing with Fire – review 2013-06-04T17:49:06Z She was twenty when she played her first serious role, the title character in Strindberg’s “Miss Julie,” in a 1969 college production. Meryl Streep’s Twenties, and My Own 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Playing with Fire, a little-known curiosity by Strindberg, is currently being performed to some acclaim at a small fringe theatre in London. Has David Mamet lost the plot? 2013-06-12T19:00:03Z Pinter, Albee, Coward, Strindberg and Shakespeare were all summoned to describe a work in which dialogue came in shades of purple. The Week Ahead: Aug. 26 — Sept. 1 2012-08-26T07:00:06Z August Strindberg’s ghost walks the streets of Stockholm. Read Your Way Through Stockholm 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z Strindberg was looking at how psychosexual dynamics can unlock deeper issues of class and gender. Mies Julie in London: 'Apartheid was an insane experiment' 2013-03-06T20:00:02Z Indeed, “The Father” was written as a retort to “A Doll’s House,” which Strindberg described as “swinery,” filled with logical potholes and tendentious argument. Review: Domestic Doom, Fiercely Conveyed, in Ibsen and Strindberg Plays 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z For all his cinematic eclecticism and exuberance, Trier belongs to a cultural tradition that includes Ibsen, Strindberg, Munch and Knausgaard — not the most whimsical company. ‘The Worst Person in the World’ Review: Oslo, Her Way 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z The one truly successful film of this period is Mike Nichols's version of Edward Albee's , where a middle-aged academic couple tear each other apart in a manner reminiscent of Strindberg at his most atrabilious. Elizabeth Taylor remembered by Philip French 2011-03-27T00:08:05Z Cautious theatergoers unacquainted with Strindberg may dip their toes into his work without being blistered. Reviews: ‘Mies Julie’ and ‘Dance of Death,’ Love and Madness in Strindberg 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z Although he had the seriousness and poise of Ibsen or Strindberg, in his younger days he was capable of great comedy and gaiety. Bergman: why are the great director's women all tragi-sexual goddesses? 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z The emphasis in Robert Bowman's new production of August Strindberg's blistering 1888 drama is on sensuality and atmosphere. Miss Julie 2010-06-18T21:30:00Z In "Miss Julie," Strindberg formulated a new approach to character, scenic design and plot by tapping into late 19th century developments in psychology, economics, biology, aesthetics and philosophy. 'Julia' updates 1888 classic with passionate acting, stunning staging, modern observation 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z If only Strindberg’s Miss Julie had instead found herself in this Swedish country manor on Midsummer’s Eve. The 10 best summer romance films 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z In elucidating the way Ibsen, Strindberg and Chekhov established the foundation of modern drama, he opened minds to the revolutionary accomplishments of Pirandello, Brecht and Beckett. Commentary: Richard Gilman, the complicated subject of a new memoir, helped raise the bar for theater criticism 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z Philip thought Woody Allen was a phony pseudo-intellectual who had never finished a book in his life and made all these highfalutin allusions to Strindberg and whatnot. 'That was harsh': Philip Roth's biographer defends his book and his subject 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z In 2001, Ms. Lindblom traveled to the United States to appear in Bergman’s fourth and final production of August Strindberg’s “Ghost Sonata.” Gunnel Lindblom, sensual star of Ingmar Bergman’s ‘The Silence,’ dies at 89 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z Spend a night at the theater and cue up the play “Julie,” a contemporary adaptation of the August Strindberg play “Miss Julie.” Hang Out With Clouded Leopards and Watch ‘Another Round’ 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z For all his political posturing and his anger toward his parents, Mr. Myrdal had a serious literary bent and was a student of the Swedish playwright August Strindberg. Jan Myrdal, radical and rebellious Swedish writer, dies at 93 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z “The Father” shares a title with a naturalistic tragedy by August Strindberg, but unlike that modern classic, Zeller isn’t able to explode the dramatic conflicts into larger meaning. Review: Alfred Molina, like Lear with dementia, thunders in 'The Father' at Pasadena Playhouse 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z His repertoire spanned the plays of Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams and August Strindberg, while he also played villains, lowlifes and comic characters in film and on television. Rip Torn, volatile actor who gained comic renown on ‘The Larry Sanders Show,’ dies at 88 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z How we evaluate dramatic writing continues to be influenced by the revolution in realism fomented by Ibsen, Strindberg and Chekhov as the 19th century gave way to the 20th. ‘Hillary and Clinton’ playwright Lucas Hnath meticulously masters the messiness of life 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z Strindberg’s impressionistic 1894 oil-on-paper “Wonderland” is a highlight of the impressive if slightly lumpy show, which covers seven countries and nearly two centuries. Favorite art museum still shut down? These 10 are open — and worth visiting 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z MassLive.com reported that the victim, identified as Michael Strindberg, was discovered with up to 12 puncture wounds, including in his chest and back. Massachusetts man accused of brutal killing involving fireplace poker: report 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Even the plays of mad, misogynistic August Strindberg are performed regularly today, with the groundbreaking "Miss Julie" seemingly in constant rotation. As artists fall into disgrace, must their art be consigned to oblivion? – LA Times 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z A study of Friedrich Nietzsche from the biographer of Munch and Strindberg. 2018 in books: a literary calendar 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z He was then working onstage as an anxious husband in a production of August Strindberg’s “Creditors.” John Heard, the Frazzled Father in ‘Home Alone,’ Dies at 71 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z For others—anyone who thinks that there are too many warm hugs in Strindberg, for example—“Queen of Earth” awaits. Alex Ross Perry’s Emotional Mayhem 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z Beerbohm is in fact quickly disputatious and highly opinionated, on subjects from Strindberg to the music hall. The Diminutive Genius of Max Beerbohm 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z In 1960, a rarely performed August Strindberg play, “The Dance of Death” opened off Broadway. New York Today: Spring Springs Eternal 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z For their parts, Farrell and Morton are more down to earth and relatable, leading one to speculate that Strindberg himself probably felt greater affinity for his working-class characters than for his heroine. ‘Miss Julie’ movie review: A power struggle with Jessica Chastain and Colin Farrell The original play, borne out of Strindberg’s naturalistic phase, pits this privileged woman, entitled and depressed, against the arrogant, social-climbing valet. Review: Good performances can’t save ‘Miss Julie’ 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z A biography of the playwright August Strindberg, and an exploration of a Mumbai slum are the focus of two books competing for the Samuel Johnson Prize. Six vie for Samuel Johnson Prize 2012-10-05T00:30:36Z After all, as the Times writer observed, “he is the Strindberg of painting and the most individual artist in the exhibition.” City Room: Spending Big Money on an 'Infinite Scream of Nature' 2012-05-03T13:15:53Z Fortescue’s been impossible ever since he produced one of those filthy Strindberg plays last summer for the Unknown Plays Committee. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z The events in Maeterlinck's life are his books; and these are not, like Strindberg's books, for instance, so inspired by personality that they in themselves form a fascinating biography. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z Ullmann has taken the utmost care with her lush, final product that a few theater students and Strindberg devotees might enjoy. Review: Good performances can’t save ‘Miss Julie’ 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z Strindberg had taken a certain interest in his work and for a time the two men had lived together. Paul Gauguin, His Life and Art 2012-02-14T03:00:24.393Z Strindberg seems to have been continuously at war with Strindberg; and the peace that he found was but the death-bed repentance of a man whose forces were spent. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z As a dramatist Strindberg's chief strength lies not so much in dramatic technique as it does in his trenchant and searching power of analysis of the human mind. Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-11-12T03:00:36.860Z Prof. Henderson's appraisal of Strindberg is certainly the fairest, kindest and most impersonal that I have yet seen. More Portmanteau Plays 2011-11-11T03:00:27.887Z In doing so, she made some slight changes, adapting Strindberg’s original Swedish text to English, moving the location to Ireland and expanding the role of Kathleen. Review: Good performances can’t save ‘Miss Julie’ 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z On his return from Tahiti, Gauguin had met August Strindberg, then living in Paris. Paul Gauguin, His Life and Art 2012-02-14T03:00:24.393Z As Emerson said of Swedenborg, in whom Strindberg found all the light that his dark soul ever knew, he lies abroad on his times, leviathan-like. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z By turns Strindberg was schoolmaster, journalist, dramatist, writer of scientific and political treatises, and writer of short stories. Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-11-12T03:00:36.860Z Rochester Post Express: Strindberg has written many plays which might be described as realistic nightmares. More Portmanteau Plays 2011-11-11T03:00:27.887Z I suspect that there is a literary law of compensation, and that, Ibsen and Strindberg to the contrary notwithstanding, there has to be a veiled virginal doll somewhere in a really taking romance. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z "Strindberg at his cleverest and best, and those who are interested in his work should make a point of getting the book." The Red Room 2011-08-13T02:00:26.943Z Other works of Strindberg, read by themselves, are clear and shapely. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z With two companions, Dr. Strindberg and Herr Fraenkel, and a specially prepared balloon, an attempt was made to get away in July 1896, but was unsuccessful, and the start was postponed for a year. The Romance of Polar Exploration Interesting Descriptions of Arctic and Antarctic Adventure from the Earliest Time to the Voyage of the ?Discovery? 2011-07-22T02:00:16.487Z In the present work the famous dramatic critic and biographer of Shaw has considered six representative dramatists outside of the United States, some living, some dead—Strindberg, Ibsen, Maeterlinck, Wilde, Shaw, Barker, and Schnitzler. More Portmanteau Plays 2011-11-11T03:00:27.887Z Hamsun here takes up an interesting psychological question and arrives at the opposite conclusion from that of Strindberg in "The Father." Knut Hamsun 2011-07-18T02:00:21.927Z Woman, in Strindberg's works, is a bogy, constructed out of the vilest ingredients that enter into the composition of human nature, with a kind of convulsive life infused by a remnant of great artistic power. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z The translator, Ellie Schleussner, would probably say, as Strindberg's admirers all say, that his resonant poetic prose cannot be rendered in another language. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Along about this time the young man finds that the romanticists have lied to him about love and he bounces all the way back to Strindberg. Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams 2011-03-28T02:00:24.120Z Can this be August Strindberg, who ends his drama so sweetly on the note of the woman-soul, leading upward and on? More Portmanteau Plays 2011-11-11T03:00:27.887Z Four years later Berlin audiences made its acquaintance, since when it has remained the most popular of Strindberg's plays in Germany. The Awakening of Spring A Tragedy of Childhood 2011-02-13T03:00:19.567Z The distortion of truth emanates in Strindberg's work, as it does in any significant satire or caricature, from indignation over the contrast between a lofty conception and a disappointing reality. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z "Marriage" contains twenty short stories of married life, so many variations of Strindberg's thesis against the institution. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Her dramatic method forms a connecting link between Ibsen and Strindberg, and its masculine directness, freedom from prejudice, and frankness gave her work a high estimation in Sweden. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z Photograph: Anthony Devlin/PA The marriage between and English football has suddenly become so dysfunctional that it might have attracted the interest of Strindberg. FA makes rod for its back by insisting on English coach 2010-08-16T23:05:00Z And August Strindberg, the enemy of love, sings that pure love is all powerful and all-conquering.”—Springfield, The Awakening of Spring A Tragedy of Childhood 2011-02-13T03:00:19.567Z We may conclude by briefly considering the final phases of Strindberg's checkered intellectual career, and by summing up his general significance for the age. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Strindberg is a great, if rough and savage, artist. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z As for Strindberg, she possessed neither manners nor concentration, and she alternately squalled her desires for food or frisked all over the studio, attempting complicated maneuvres with every curtain-cord and tassel within reach. The Moonlit Way A friend of Strindberg’s, in delirium tremens, was haunted by mice, and a friend in the next room heard the squealing of the mice. The Trembling of the Veil An example of Strindberg's power as analyst of human nature. The Awakening of Spring A Tragedy of Childhood 2011-02-13T03:00:19.567Z For a while, Strindberg endorsed unqualifiedly the heterodox ethics of the towering paranoiac. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Strindberg's satire is severe, it is sometimes hard, but it is not mean. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Dulcie Soane came out into the court presently and expostulated with Strindberg, who suffered herself to be removed from the hyacinth bed, only to make a hysterical charge on her mistress’s ankles. The Moonlit Way The strongest expression of this idea of the Devil in modern literature has been given by August Strindberg, whose Lucifer is a compound of Prometheus, Apollo and Christ. Devil Stories An Anthology There is a lady novelist in the same country who could give points to Zola himself; and nearly every work of Strindberg's has scandalized a large portion of the public in Sweden. Eyes Like the Sea In Strindberg's case, religious conversion is not an edifying, but on the contrary a morbid and saddening spectacle; it is equal to a declaration of complete spiritual bankruptcy. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z "The Thunderstorm" plays upon an old theme, one that Strindberg knew by experience, the failure of marriage between an elderly man and a young woman. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Only Strindberg was impossible, chasing her own tail under the patient feet of Aristocrates, or rolling over and over beneath the table in a mindless assault upon her own hind toes. The Moonlit Way Furthermore, Strindberg played a marked rôle in his artistic development. Ivory Apes and Peacocks The dramas of Strindberg come nearest in this respect, but they, too, lag behind in soul-revealing quality. The Lonely Way—Intermezzo—Countess Mizzie Three Plays Strindberg wrote two descriptions of it, one before, the other after visiting the colony. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z The Stranger who finds all reputations to have been based on sham and all pride founded on wind, is said to be Strindberg himself. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Do you remember the crazy way Strindberg rolls around? The Moonlit Way On the technical side Strindberg has taught him much; he prefers the one-act form, or a series of loosely joined episodes. Ivory Apes and Peacocks The office boy prefers Captain Kidd to Strindberg; not because he is a boy, but because he is human and has not yet learned the trick of disingenuousness. When Winter Comes to Main Street In any case, the large and durable interest shown his productions marks Strindberg as a literary phenomenon of sufficient consequence to deserve some study. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z It seethes with ideas, ends in a half-formed philosophy, and is only a section of Strindberg's intellectual adventures. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Strindberg, Weininger, Maupassant, Jules de Goncourt, knew too much about sex, and they all went mad, although it is usual to disguise the fact in the less familiar terms of medical science. G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study Hedda, like Strindberg's Julia, may escape him because, coward as she was when facing harsh reality, she had the courage to rid her family of a worthless encumbrance. Ivory Apes and Peacocks The Liberry Teacher knew that it was her duty to go over and hypnotize the child into reading something which would lead more directly to Browning and Strindberg. The Rose-Garden Husband In order to disclose the most dangerous traits of the feminine soul, Strindberg dissects it by a method that corresponds closely to Ibsen's astonishing demonstration of masculine viciousness. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Strindberg has been called both misogamist and misogynist. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z A translation is announced of a book by August Strindberg, entitled "Fair Haven and Foul Strand." Punch, or the London Charivari, May 27, 1914 It is fantastic, as fantastic as Strindberg's Dream Play, but amusing. Ivory Apes and Peacocks That the theatregoers in the Scandinavian countries care for nothing but Ibsen and Strindberg. The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind If, therefore, we look for a lesson in Strindberg's life as recited by himself, we shall not find it in his religious conversion. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z He writes to Strindberg: I am the most powerful intellect of the age, condemned to fulfill a stupendous mission…. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Every flapper now knows all that is worth knowing about Ibsen, Strindberg, Maeterlinck and Shaw, and a great deal that is not worth knowing. A Book of Prefaces Fancy finding the contes of August Strindberg, the dramatist, that genius of subtle perception and abysmal gloom, here in this forsaken place. The Hidden Places Once—an exception—he had succumbed to the charms of an actress who essayed characters in the dumps—Ibsen soubrettes, Strindberg servants, and Máxim Górky tramps. Visionaries Strindberg, however, has nothing to offer at the end. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Brandes and Strindberg put wreaths on his head, and he was proud of them. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z There is more than one profound thinker of our own period who has arraigned her influence—Strindberg and Nietzsche among them. The Business of Being a Woman Jean You read a play by Strindberg, and you say it's very strong, very artistic, but all the while you believe it is only the nightmare of a diseased mind. Read-Aloud Plays Accompanying the daring explorer were two other venturesome men, Mr. Strindberg and Mr. Fraenkel. The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 40, August 12, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls But Strindberg, in spite of his colossal physique, was not cast in the heroic mold. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z We discussed Strindberg, his novels and plays ... his curious researches in science ... Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Strindberg wrote of Gauguin's first exhibition and expressed dislike for the artist's prepossession with form, and for the savage models he chose. White Shadows in the South Seas Well, the Strindberg play has been my real life, and real life my play, my impossible dream. Read-Aloud Plays The present English version was made by me some years ago—in the summer of 1906—when I first began to plan a Strindberg edition for this country. Plays by August Strindberg, Second series Strindberg first attracted public notice by the appearance in 1879 of a novel named “The Red Room.” Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Various "feminine Strindbergs of the woman movement," as they have been termed, displayed marked hostility to men. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion It is as biting a commentary—one is tempted to say as acid—as a page from Strindberg. Promenades of an Impressionist Strindberg has obtained, because of his own neurotic and almost feminine clairvoyance, a diabolical insight into the perversities of the feminine character. One Hundred Best Books Yet it has all the dramatic intensity which we have come to look upon as one of the main characteristics of Strindberg's work for the stage. Plays by August Strindberg, Second series The question is, naturally, was Strindberg sincere in the fanatical insurgency of his earlier period, or was his attitude merely a theatrical pose and his social enthusiasm a ranting declamation? Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z It would be nonsense, however, to pretend that Strindberg did not see at least one class of women clearly and truly. Old and New Masters Yes, without a touch of Strindberg's mad fantasy, Zorn is kin to him in his ironic, witty way of saying things about his friends and in front of their faces. Promenades of an Impressionist But it appeared that she had never heard of Strindberg, Sudermann, or d'Annunzio; and even Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde were unfamiliar names. Kimono Of Strindberg's dramatic works the briefest is "The Stronger." Plays by August Strindberg, Second series But these works lie outside the scope of the more specific discussion of Strindberg as a mystic and an eccentric to which this sketch is devoted. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Strindberg laid hold on life through an exceptional excitability—even an exceptional irritability. Old and New Masters Look at them, all the sad wraiths of sad mad men and passionate rebels—your Schopenhauers, your Strindbergs, your Tolstois and Nietzsches. John Barleycorn Tolstoi, Ibsen and Strindberg each contributed his share to the movement. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I The man with a single quality, like Molière's Harpagon, was much too primitive and crude for Strindberg's art, as he himself rightly asserted in his preface to "Miss Julia." Plays by August Strindberg, Second series The biography throws an especially vivid light on Strindberg's relation to one of the most important factors of socialism, to wit, the question of woman's rights. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Here, and in a score of similar passages, we can see how physical were the demons that endlessly consumed Strindberg's peace of mind. Old and New Masters The name of Strindberg is most often mentioned, but surely very unfortunately. Essays in War-Time Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene There is a certain intolerable nastiness about the real Ibsen: the same thing is in Strindberg and in most of the Norwegian and Swedish writings. Twilight in Italy For Strindberg does hold us, even when we regret his power of doing so. Plays by August Strindberg, Second series Strindberg, as has been stated, was not from the outset, or perchance constitutionally, an anti-feminist. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z If Dostoevsky had had less vision he would have been Strindberg. Old and New Masters Strindberg's great trilogy The Road to Damascus presents many mysteries to the uninitiated. The Road to Damascus These he wished to give to Strindberg as further assurance "that he has," to use Herr Lindberg's words, "the right representatives in this country." Plays: Comrades; Facing Death; Pariah; Easter This wordless opponent of Mrs. X. is another of those vampire characters which Strindberg was so fond of drawing, and it is on her the limelight is directed with merciless persistency. Plays by August Strindberg, Second series Moreover, Strindberg felt that the movement was being carried too far. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z The biography will supply the need of that part of the public which has no time to read Strindberg, but has plenty of time to read about him. Old and New Masters In 1898 Strindberg had only half emerged from what was by far the severest of the many crises through which in his troubled life he had to pass. The Road to Damascus Strindberg tells of asking a young writer how he could get along without God. Plays: Comrades; Facing Death; Pariah; Easter The volume containing the translation of "There Are Crimes and Crimes" had barely reached the public when word came across the ocean that August Strindberg had ended his long fight with life. Plays by August Strindberg, Second series To repeat, there was at first nothing absolutely preposterous about Strindberg's position in regard to the woman movement. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z But we must, in fairness to Strindberg, remember that in his violences against women he merely gives us a new rendering of an indictment that goes back to the beginning of history. Old and New Masters In 1898, when Parts I and II of the trilogy were written, Strindberg had been married twice; both marriages had ended unhappily. The Road to Damascus However, the psychology of woman represents but one phase of Strindberg. Plays: Comrades; Facing Death; Pariah; Easter Among more than half a hundred plays produced by Strindberg during his lifetime, none has won such widespread attention as "Miss Julia," both on account of its masterful construction and its gripping theme. Plays by August Strindberg, Second series But by force of his supervening personal grievance against the sex, Strindberg's anti-feminism became in the long run the fixed pole about which gravitated his entire system of social and ethical thought. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Sex, of course, was the greatest cross Strindberg had to bear. Old and New Masters Strindberg was acquitted after a time, but before that his easily fired imagination had given him a thorough shake-up, which could only hasten the crisis which seemed to be approaching. The Road to Damascus August Strindberg died at Stockholm On May 14, 1912, just ten days after the first of his plays given in English in the United States had completed a month's engagement. Plays: Comrades; Facing Death; Pariah; Easter Had Strindberg been content with his position of 1888, many honours now withheld might have fallen to his share. Plays by August Strindberg, Second series The case against woman is classically drawn up in “The Father,” one of the strangest and at the same time most powerful tragedies of Strindberg. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z The mirror that Strindberg held up to Nature was a cracked one. Old and New Masters In reality Strindberg was at this time almost impossible to live with. The Road to Damascus It was written in Denmark, where Strindberg, after finishing "The Father" in Switzerland in 1887, went with his family to live for two years, and was published March 21, 1888. Plays: Comrades; Facing Death; Pariah; Easter They are derived in part from Swedenborg, and in part from that picturesque French dreamer who signs himself "Sar Péladan"; but mostly they have sprung out of Strindberg's own experiences in moments of abnormal tension. Plays by August Strindberg, Second series Leaving aside, then, all question as to their artistic value, Strindberg's dramas are deserving of attention as experiments in a fairly unexplored field of analytic psychology. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z But it becomes taller still before Strindberg has done with it. Old and New Masters Never before had Strindberg lived in such distress as at this period, both physically and mentally. The Road to Damascus At last Strindberg had someone to love, to take care of, to worship. Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger We have to read Strindberg, but to read him à rebours. Impressions and Comments The anti-feminism of Strindberg's predecessors, not excepting that arch-misogynist, Arthur Schopenhauer himself, sprang from contempt, not from abhorrence and abject fear. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Strindberg is too anxious to make tragedy out of discomforts instead of out of sorrows. Old and New Masters True enough, it turned out that the girl had fallen ill just at the time when Strindberg had felt the warning. The Road to Damascus These were the short stories, satisfying to the simplest as well as to the most discriminating minds, that attracted Nietzsche's attention to Strindberg. Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger Lind-Af-Hageby has just published an enthusiastic though discriminating book on her distinguished fellow-countryman, August Strindberg, the first to appear in English. Impressions and Comments They are propelled by an abysmal pessimism, and because of this fact, since pessimism is one of the mightiest inspiring forces in literature, August Strindberg, its foremost spokesman, deserves to be read and understood. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Strindberg deliberately wrote those words on his banner and held them aloft to his generation as the summary of an eternal gospel. Old and New Masters Here reminiscences from Strindberg's first marriage play a part. The Road to Damascus These days of homage and appreciation from this student group Strindberg cherishes as the happiest time in his life, but notwithstanding their worshipful attitude, he himself was full of doubts and misgivings about his abilities. Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger Strindberg is known as perhaps the most ferocious and skilful vivisector of the human soul. Impressions and Comments One cannot speak of August Strindberg with much gusto. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Love itself is with him, as with Strindberg and D'Annunzio, for the most part only a sort of rearrangement of hatred. Old and New Masters After this we can understand why Strindberg in The Road to Damascus apparently in such surprising manner is seized by the suspicion that he is himself the beggar. The Road to Damascus Strindberg regarded the summons as the perpetration of a practical joke, and only obeyed it after making sure by telegraph that it was not a hoax. Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger I came upon that passage in Sylva Sylvarum, the first book of Strindberg's I ever read, and it pleased me so much that I believe I read no further. Impressions and Comments But there were two facts that prevented Strindberg from proceeding farther along this line of thought. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z They are well worth seeing with Strindberg's brilliant illumination thrown upon them. Married The wedding day scenes just before, between Harriet Bosse and the ageing author, form, however, the climax of Part III and are among the most poetically moving that Strindberg has ever written. The Road to Damascus Strindberg tells of the kindly old king standing with a big pipe in his hand as the young author strode between chamberlains and other court dignitaries into the royal presence. Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger I am reminded of it now when Strindberg's fame has grown so great in England. Impressions and Comments Strindberg never forgave his father for having married below his station. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Hence it is that, however opinionated Strindberg may at times seem, his writings carry that conviction which we receive only when the author reproduces' truths he has obtained first-hand from life. Married It can be readily understood that to a man of Strindberg's self-conceit the problem of his relations with women must become a vital issue on the solution of which the whole Damascus pilgrimage depended. The Road to Damascus "Quite the reverse," Strindberg replied, explaining that his father no longer gave him the meager help in his university course, which he had formerly done. Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger It really seems to me that that fantastic image is an excellent symbol of Strindberg himself. Impressions and Comments Here was the first evil that darkened Strindberg's life: he simply was cheated out of his childhood. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Through works like The Red Room, Married, and the dramas The Father and Miss Julia, Strindberg attached himself to the naturalistic school of literature. Married In the year 1901, when the wedding scenes of Part III were written, Strindberg had recently experienced the rapture of a new love which, however, was soon to be clouded. The Road to Damascus In consequence of this success an intimate theatre was founded for the production of none but Strindberg's plays. Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger A very interesting book, as might be expected, for it is Strindberg's. Historical Miniatures Strindberg was a man with an omnivorous intellectual curiosity, and he commanded a vast store of knowledge in the fields of history, science, and languages. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z That the result has proved successful is due to the happy admixture in Strindberg of thinker and artist. Married But when she was delayed a few days on the journey from London, Strindberg impatiently departed for Berlin, where Frida Uhl followed shortly after. The Road to Damascus His ancestry has been traced back to the sixteenth century, when his father's family was of the titled aristocracy, later, generation after generation, becoming churchmen, although Strindberg's father, Carl Oscar, undertook a commercial career. Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger It is surprising to see how, in four or five pages, the author gives a clear view of the monotonous life of seventy years; in this particular art, Strindberg himself has done no better. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century Very soon, however, Strindberg passed out of the sphere of Nietzsche's influence. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z August Strindberg has left a remarkably rich record of his life in various works, especially in his autobiographical series of novels. Married She obtained a divorce from her husband and married Strindberg. The Road to Damascus He refused the invitation, but the next day, walking in the city streets with this same woman friend, they encountered the Baroness Wrangel to whom Strindberg was introduced. Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger To the later Strindberg—the man who wrote Advent, for instance—it must have seemed one of his most unforgivable offences. Master Olof : a Drama in Five Acts Evidently, with his large assortment of defects both of character and of intellect, Strindberg could not be classed as one of the great constructive minds of our period. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Strindberg married three times, divorced his first two wives, but separated amicably from the third. Married Strindberg stayed on R�gen during the month of July, and then left for the home of his parents-in-law at Mondsee, near Salzburg in Austria, where he was to meet his wife. The Road to Damascus Of these, "The Father" and "Countess Julie" soon made Strindberg's name known and honored throughout Europe, except in his home country. Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger Of all the manuscripts preceding the final metrical version," says Dr. Landquist, "the original one, written when Strindberg was twenty-three, is the masterpiece. Master Olof : a Drama in Five Acts The autobiography of Strindberg is largely inspired by his unreasoning hatred of women; the result, in the main, of his three unfortunate ventures into the uncongenial field of matrimony. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Strindberg's art in Married is of the propagandist, of the fighter for a cause. Married With his hypersensitive nervous system Strindberg, like THE STRANGER, really gives the impression of having been a visionary. The Road to Damascus The friendship which followed resulted in the divorce of the Baroness from her husband and her marriage to Strindberg, December 30, 1877, when he was twenty-eight years old. Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger Much more serious than any liberties taken with dates or facts, I deem certain linguistic anachronisms, of which Strindberg not rarely becomes guilty. Master Olof : a Drama in Five Acts Strindberg has added nothing to the stock of human understanding. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Ibsen is as idealistic as Strindberg is materialist. Without Prejudice It must not be forgotten that in his entire emotional life Strindberg was an artist and as such a man of impulse, with the spontaneity and naivity and intensity of a child. The Road to Damascus This, to his mind, belated success, roused in Strindberg a smoldering resentment, which lack of confidence and authority of position had heretofore caused him to repress. Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger The truth is that Strindberg was not striving to reproduce the actual language of the Period—a language of which we get a glimpse in the quotations from The Comedy of Tobit. Master Olof : a Drama in Five Acts One can hardly peruse it without asking: Was Strindberg insane? Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z The man with a single quality, like Moliere's Harpagon, was much too primitive and crude for Strindberg's art, as he himself rightly asserted in his preface to "Miss Julia." Plays by August Strindberg: Creditors. Pariah. From the very beginning her marriage to Strindberg had been most troublous. The Road to Damascus Countess Julie," Strindberg says: "When I took this motive from life, as it was related to me a few years ago, it made a strong impression on me. Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger "The author meant to hide his own self behind the historical characters," Strindberg tells us, apropos of this very play. Master Olof : a Drama in Five Acts They are derived in part from Swedenborg, and in part from that picturesque French dreamer who signs himself "Sar Peladan"; but mostly they have sprung out of Strindberg's own experiences in moments of abnormal tension. There Are Crimes and Crimes Strindberg was unable to say in a moment. Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger Strindberg was too restless to stay there and moved on to London. The Road to Damascus But Strindberg turned his back on all this success and shut himself up in his laboratory to delve into chemistry. Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger This comes from Olof, and takes the form of a brief apostrophe to the fleeing Vilhelm, which I think ranks with the finest passages produced by Strindberg. Master Olof : a Drama in Five Acts Strindberg was overwhelmed by such munificence, and the interview was concluded by his introduction to the court treasurer, from whom he received his first quarter's allowance of two hundred crowns. Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger In Stockholm, living almost as a recluse, August Strindberg is dreaming life away. Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger Countless were the experiments for this purpose made by Strindberg in his primitive laboratories, and countless his failures. The Road to Damascus That the individual will prove quite as interesting a study as his literary work, even the briefest outline of Strindberg's life will suggest. Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger The action of the play lasts from 1524 to 1540, but Strindberg has contracted the general perspective, so to speak, giving us the impression that the entire action takes place within a couple of years. Master Olof : a Drama in Five Acts And his wildest dreams were then realized, for, despite the unappreciative attitude of the critics toward this splendid Viking piece, the King, Carl XV, after seeing the play, commanded Strindberg to appear before him. Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger Strindberg went to Stockholm to become a literateur and, if possible, a creative artist. Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger However, it is typical of the fate-oppressed Strindberg that in his work even the happiest summer memories become tinged with black. The Road to Damascus Following the mighty output, of those years, in 1891 Strindberg went out: to the islands where he had lived years before, and led a hermit's life. Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger Strindberg had first meant to name his play "What Is Truth?" Master Olof : a Drama in Five Acts The mutual admiration and intellectual sympathies of these two conspicuous creative geniuses has led a number of critics, including Edmund Gosse, into the error of attributing to Nietzsche a dominating influence over Strindberg. Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger The day after was a memorable one, for it was Strindberg's birthday as a dramatist. Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger Seen as a whole the trilogy marks a turning point in Strindberg's dramatic production. The Road to Damascus After a few months Strindberg went to Berlin, where he was received with all honors by literary Germany. Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger During his second term of study at the old university Strindberg wrote some plays that he subsequently destroyed. Master Olof : a Drama in Five Acts Strindberg was present at the premiere and although it was well received, to him it was all a fine occasion—except the play! Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger In this drama, which retains a high place among his plays, Strindberg shows for the first time his lion's claw and in it began to speak with his own voice. Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger Interest in chemistry had long been stirring in Strindberg's mind; it now began to deepen. Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger "The Creditors" had been produced and Strindberg was induced to undertake the direction of "The Father" at the Theatre de l'Oeuvre, where it was a tremendous success. Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger Such were the main influences at work on his mind when, early in 1872, his royal protector died, and Strindberg found himself once more dependent on his own resources. Master Olof : a Drama in Five Acts To Strindberg's amazement, it won such tremendous attention that the other theatres became deserted. Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger Strindberg's habit was to fill his head with the facts to be used, and then to rely on his memory. Master Olof : a Drama in Five Acts In his very indifference to minor accuracies, Strindberg sometimes approaches more closely to the larger truth than men more scrupulous in regard to details. Master Olof : a Drama in Five Acts Strindberg went on "to do or die," and was soon shouting like a revivalist, and made such it bad impression that he was advised to go to the dramatic school to study. Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger Strindberg was at first stunned by this failure. Master Olof : a Drama in Five Acts These passages were written by Strindberg fourteen years after the completion of the play to which they refer. Master Olof : a Drama in Five Acts To the officials of this state—supported institution Strindberg submitted his work—hopefully, as we know from his own statement. Master Olof : a Drama in Five Acts These instances serve, in fact, to prove how skilfully Strindberg handled his historical material. Master Olof : a Drama in Five Acts In four days it was finished—Strindberg's first play! Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger |
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