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Johan August Strindberg (/ ˈ s t r ɪ n (d) b ɜːr ɡ /, Swedish: [ˈǒːɡɵst ˈstrɪ̂nːdbærj] ⓘ; 22 January 1849 – 14 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, and painter.
May 10, 2024 · August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright, novelist, and short-story writer, who combined psychology and Naturalism in a new kind of European drama that evolved into Expressionist drama. His chief works include The Father (1887), Miss Julie (1888), Creditors (1888), A Dream Play (1902), and The.
August Strindberg was a playwright, theatre practitioner, novelist, essayist, dramatist, and painter. Though outside Sweden he is well known for his plays but not his other works. A prolific writer, he wrote about 60 plays.
May 20, 2019 · Tremendously influential in both Europe and the United States, August Strindberg (22 January 1849 – 14 May 1912) was begrudgingly praised by Henrik Ibsen as one who would be greater than he, and more generously lauded half a century later by Eugene O’Neill as the writer to whom the American playwright owed his greatest debt.…
Johan August Strindberg is born the third son (the first within wedlock) of steamship commissioner Carl August Strindberg and Ulrika Eleonora (Nora) Norling, daughter of a master tailor. Their home is solidly bourgeois: well ordered and a little rigid, but prosperous and safe.
Johan August Strindberg, a Swede, wrote psychological realism of noted novels and plays, including Miss Julie (1888) and The Dance of Death (1901). Johan August Strindberg painted.
August Strindberg, (born Jan. 22, 1849, Stockholm, Swed.—died May 14, 1912, Stockholm), Swedish playwright and novelist. While working as a journalist, he wrote the historical drama Mäster Olof (1872); though rejected by the national theatre and not produced until 1890, it is now considered the first modern Swedish drama.
Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg wrote more than 60 plays and more than 30 works of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics during his career, which spanned four decades.
May 10, 2024 · August Strindberg - Playwright, Naturalism, Expressionism: To the end, Strindberg debated current social and political ideas (returning to the radical views of his youth) in polemical articles, while his philosophy was expounded in the aphoristic Zones of the Spirit (1907–12).
August Strindberg is considered one of the most important Swedish writers of the modern era. His drama Miss Julie (1888) has proven to be a classic, and several of his later plays, such as The Dream Play (1907) and the trilogy To Damascus (1898–1904), are recognized as forerunners of expressionism and the theater of the absurd.
