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The Cambridge Companion to August Strindberg
Edited By Michael Ro
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Description for The Cambridge Companion to August Strindberg
hardcover. A collection of essays on the highly colourful life and work of August Strindberg - dramatist, novelist, autobiographer and painter. Editor(s): Robinson, Michael. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. Num Pages: 226 pages, 10 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2ACSW; DSBF; DSG. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 49.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
Series
Cambridge Companions to Literature
Number of Pages
226
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521846042
SKU
V9780521846042
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About Edited By Michael Ro
Michael Robinson is Professor Emeritus of Drama and Scandinavian Studies at the University of East Anglia, Norwich.
Reviews for The Cambridge Companion to August Strindberg
'This is a high-calibre, manageable collection of essays.' Laura Silverman, WhatsOnStage.com