August Strindberg: 82 books

Die Gespenstersonate ist ein Kammerspiel von Johan August Strindberg, das er am 21. Januar 1908 im 'Intima teatern', das er im Jahr davor, zusammen mit dem Schauspieler August Falck, gegründet hatte, uraufführt. Die Uraufführung floppt und das Stück wird erst vier Jahre nach dem Tod des Autors...

Die Gespenstersonate ist ein Kammerspiel von Johan August Strindberg, das er am 21. Januar 1908 im 'Intima teatern', das er im Jahr davor, zusammen mit dem Schauspieler August Falck, gegründet hatte, uraufführt. Die Uraufführung floppt und das Stück wird erst vier Jahre nach dem Tod des Autors...

August Strindberg: Fräulein Julie. Naturalistisches Trauerspiel Fröken Julie. Entstanden 1888, Erstdruck 1889, Uraufführung am 14. März 1889 in Kopenhagen. Hier in der deutschen Übersetzung von Ernst Brausewetter. Neuausgabe mit einer Biographie des Autors. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin...

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 innovators...

The stormy personal life of the great Swedish dramatist August Strindberg was punctuated with duels between the sexes, with ruthless, aggressive women usurping the supposedly male prerogative of decision-making and leadership. More than in any of his other plays, Strindberg explores this theme in...

This collection of plays by Swedish playwright and writer, August Strindberg, are a testimony to his title as "the father of modern literature" in Sweden, as well as to his distinction as one of the most important playwrights of the 20th century. Beginning with two of his popular, early plays, "The Father"...

Midsummer's Eve, Sweden. A night when the sun doesn't set. A night of drinking and dancing. A night to break the rules. When Julie finds herself alone on her father's estate, she throws caution to the wind and gate-crashes the servants' party. In the sultry heat of that long, light night, she...

Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish writer, playwright, and painter. Along with Henrik Ibsen, Søren Kierkegaard, Selma Lagerlöf and Hans Christian Andersen he is arguably the most influential and famous of all Scandinavian authors. Strindberg is known as one of the fathers of modern theatre. His...

Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish writer, playwright, and painter. Along with Henrik Ibsen, Søren Kierkegaard, Selma Lagerlöf and Hans Christian Andersen he is arguably the most influential and famous of all Scandinavian authors. Strindberg is known as one of the fathers of modern theatre. His...

A philosopher and poet here describes the visions which a study of the history of mankind has called up before his inner eye' Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish writer, playwright, and painter. Along with Henrik Ibsen, Søren Kierkegaard, Selma Lagerlöf and Hans Christian Andersen he is...

The Red Room is a true masterpiece of Swedish literature. And its author, August Strindberg, is the acknowledged literary master. The Red Room is the novel full of mockery of the Stockholm society with its hypocrisy and reaction patterns. The novel is about young civil servant Arvid Falk who leaves...

“I should like to see your blood flowing! To see your brain on the chopping block! All your sex swimming in a sea of blood!” August Strindberg was thirty-nine and living in Denmark when in 1888 he wrote his best known drama, Miss Julie, which challenges traditional class conflicts through...

Caryl Churchill's spare and resonant version of Strindberg's enigmatic masterpiece. Written in 1901, a mysterious amalgam of Freud, Alice in Wonderland and Strindberg's own private symbolism, A Dream Play follows the logic of a dream: A young woman comes from another world to see if...

The republication of The Confession of a Fool represents the last link in the chain of Strindberg's autobiographical novels. A German version of the book was published as far back as 1893, but it was mutilated, abbreviated, corrupted, and falsified to such an extent that the attorney-general, misled...