Den 6 maj 1901 gifte sig August Strindberg, Sveriges främste dramatiker, med landets kanske vackraste och mest begåvade skådespelerska, den tjugotreåriga Harriet Bosse. Han friade med de bevingade orden: Vill Ni ha ett litet barn med mig, fröken Bosse? Så föddes dottern Anne-Mari[...]
Den 6 maj 1901 gifte sig August Strindberg, Sveriges främste dramatiker - pÃ¥ höjden av sin konstnärliga skaparkraft, med landets kanske vackraste och mest begÃ¥vade skÃ¥despelerska, den 23-Ã¥riga Harriet Bosse. Den 25 mars Ã¥ret därpÃ¥ föddes parets dotter Anne-Marie. Ã[...]
Strindberg's most important and most frequently performed plays - "The Father", "Miss Julie", "A Dream Play", "The Dance of Death", and "The Ghost Sonata" - are gathered together here in translations praised for their fluency and their elegance.[...]
Formerly part of the "World Dramatists" series of play collections by classic and modern playwrights, including foreign works in workable and accurate translations, this title and seven others are reissued in a new format under the heading, "World Classics".[...]
Includes the plays Miss Julie, The Father, The Comrades and Creditors Miss Julie is Strindberg's best known play, a naturalistic drama about an affair which involves a brutal struggle for ascendancy between the two sexes and two classes. The Father, an almost entirely one-sided rage against the pow[...]
I boxen ingår följande titlar ut August Strindbergs produktion:Giftas, Inferno, En dåres försvarstal, Tjänstekvinnans son och Svarta fanor.[...]
Ett urval av Strindbergs texter, uppläst av Per Myrberg.
Nationalupplagan av August Strindbergs Samlade Verk är en sällan skådad sammanställning av ett författarskap. Här ingår samtliga texter som Strindberg författade: skådespel, romaner, noveller, dikter, essäer, uppsatser och tidningsartiklar. Utgivningen inleddes 1981 med Röda rummet och av[...]
En liten bok med mycket upproriskt innehåll: August Strindbergs Lilla katekes för underklassen - en furiös stridsskrift slungad mot hela etablissemanget, en rallarsving mot hela samhällsbygget.
Kontentan är att det mesta i samhällsordningen (lagen, moralen, politiken, religione[...]
August Strindbergs lilla katekes för underklassen är Strindbergs mest kända politiska skrift. Med den ville författaren avslöja samhällets grundläggande lögner och, som han själv skrev, "väcka underklassens hat mot öfverklassen". Idag när samhällsklyftorna ökar och den offentliga lögn[...]
Det är 100 år sedan Strindberg dog. Detta firas landet runt genom att spela hans pjäser och ge ut hans böcker. Vi på Kata vill lyfta upp den politiska Strindberg. Radikalen som gick till storms mot den korrupta överklassens Sverige. Som röjde väg för demokrati. Strindberg är knappast oprob[...]
The Father; A Dream Play; Miss Julie; The Ghost Sonata; The Dance of Death 'Ibsen can sit serenely in his Doll's House,' Sean O'Casey remarked, 'while Strindberg is battling with his heaven and his hell.' Strindberg was one of the most extreme, and ultimately the most influential theatrical innovato[...]
As all the great dramatists since the Greek tragedians have known, class and gender roles continue to remain the two fundamental determinants of the social fabric of any culture--even one, like our own, in which the boundaries of those identities have become fluid, situational and transitory. David[...]
By far Strindberg's most aggressive work, The Father is a feverish nightmare of the struggle he saw between defiant masculinity and the "treacherous weakness" of woman. Mr. Brustein's adaptation takes account of modern feminist sensibilities without diminishing the play's relentless power and furiou[...]
The mortal conflict of the sexes, traced here by Strindberg in the clash between an aristocratic young woman and her valet. Ms. Stockenstrom's new translation retains the rhythm and emotional feel of the original while making the prose more playable for today's audiences.[...]
Alongside Tate Modern's big Strindberg Exhibition this Spring - his two most famous plays are published in the popular pocket-format Drama Classics series Strindberg's best-known and most performed play (1889): the story of a torrid affair between a manservant and his mistress. This edition contains[...]
August Strindberg (1849-1912) is best known internationally as Sweden's greatest dramatist. Less well known outside Sweden is the range of his other writings--novels, short stories, essays, journalism, and poetry. This novella, translated into English here for the first time, was written in the autu[...]
I nummer 183 av Bild & Bubbla presenterar vi Fabian Göranssons serieversion av Strindbergs roman Inferno, med intervju med skaparen samt en recension av historieprofessor Dick Harrisson. Bildsektionen i detta nummer utgörs av en genomgång av hur staden Stockholm har framställts i tecknade serier[...]
Miss Julie is Strindberg's masterpiece, written at the height of his powers as a dramatist. It treats sexuality and human struggle with a frank realism previously unknown in the theatre. This volume also includes Strindberg's Preface to the play. Helen Cooper's taut, contemporary stage version, whic[...]
Presents the conflict between sexual and social position. This work belongs to the series of plays, notably "The Father and Creditors", in which sex and marriage are treated with frank realism.[...]
One of the greatest classics of modern theater concerns a willful young aristocrat's seduction of her father's valet during a Midsummer's Eve celebration. Reprinted from an authoritative edition complete with Strindberg's highly regarded critical preface.
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This is the first fully-edited translation of a series of essays by the great Swedish dramatist August Strindberg. The essays, edited and translated by Michael Robinson, have been selected for the light they shed, both directly and indirectly, on Strindberg?s contribution to the European theatre, fi[...]