...Sister Corona Sharp Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 STRINDBERG AND DURRENMATT THE DYNAMICS OF PLAY By SISTERCORONA SHARP The influence of Strindberg on modern drama is well known. His concern...

.... Ser. A, Band 6, No. 3, 1956. Pp. 177. Kr. 15 To determine the initial impact of Nietzsche’s ideas on Swedish literature, Harold Borland has restricted his study to three of Sweden’s greatest writers- Strindberg, Heidenstam, and Friiding-and to Ola Hansson, the poet and essay- ist...

... XII, Gusfav III. Translations and Intro- ductions by WALTERJOHNSON. Seattle : University of Washington Press : New York : American-Scandinavian Foundation, 1955. Pp. vii + 282. $4.50. August Strindberg, the titan of Swedish literature, has during the post-war years received more...

...Richard B. Vowles August Strindberg and Walter Johnson. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1959. Pp. ix + 204. $4.00. Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 88 Revims The Vma Trilogr: Master Olof, Gu.stav Vasa, Erik XIV. By AUGUST...

... study to three of Sweden’s greatest writers- Strindberg, Heidenstam, and Friiding-and to Ola Hansson, the poet and essay- ist who never quite lived up to his early promise. For each of them, Borland has set out (1) to determine which works of Nietzsche he read ; (2) to document each one’s...

... Wayne Unizvrsify Strindbcrg’s Queen Christina, Charles XII, Gusfav III. Translations and Intro- ductions by WALTERJOHNSON. Seattle : University of Washington Press : New York : American-Scandinavian Foundation, 1955. Pp. vii + 282. $4.50. August Strindberg, the titan of Swedish...

.... $2.00; $3.00. Except for a few plays of August Strindberg little is known in England and America about the Swedish drama. In the past, to be sure, Swedish classic literature has remained essentially lyric, but there have been notable exceptions both in fiction and in the drama...

... in Chekhovian naturalism or in Strindberg’s dream plays helps us to understand twentieth-century drama to some degree, but obviously both Chekhov and Strindberg are self-sufficient, and must be appreciated not as in some way failed verse dramatists, or writers who await their fulfillment in the work...

... (translator). Gustav Adolf. By August Strindberg. Seattle : University of Washington Press ; New York : American-Scandinavian Founda- tion, 1957. Pp. xi + 233. $4.00. Johnson, Walter (translator). The Last of the Knights; The Regent; Earl Birger of Bjalbo. By August Strindberg. Seattle...

... fellow resident of Munich. Otto Brahm, director of the once influential Freie Buhne in Berlin, which had sponsored plays by Ibsen, Hauptmann, Anzen- gruber, and Strindberg, informed Halbe that he might give Keyser- ling’s piece a try for the sake of literature, although he did not expect...

... Theatre (2000), which received the Association for Theatre in Higher Education's prize for best theater studies book in 2001, and Strindberg's Secret Codes (2004). His new book, Philosophers and Thespians , is forthcoming. What History? Some Afterthoughts Freddie Rokem...

... Lyhne”; Alrik Gustafson, “Aspects of Theme and Form in Rosmersholm”; Bgrge GedM Madsen, “Henrik Pontoppidan’s Emanuel Hansted and Per Sidenius”; Walter Johnson, “Gustav Adolf Revised”; Amid Paulson, “The Father: A Survey of Critical Opinion of August Strindberg’s Tragedy...

...) of English and American criticism of Strindbcrg up to 1912. One may perhaps be allowed the expression of an un- critical doubt as to whether Strindberg will ever be made “palat- able.” Stef6n Einarsson elucidates conscientiously the numerous modern Icelandic inconsistencies in the use...

..., the distinguished Lindbergs father and son as the king and Erik respectively. The notable Vakhtangov production of Erik XZV in Moscow in 1921, with Michael Chekhov as the king, was a styliza- tion of history that should be entered in the log of Strindberg’s plays. Indeed, the vicissitudes of all...

... in Strindberg’s dream and ghost plays where the balanced construction of the realistic stage is already willfully and consciously disrupted. Reaching back into his romantic heritage, the great Swedish innovator used quite a variety of Alienation Effects but did not choose to attach any “sociological...

... Strindberg introduced him to the German’s books, but he surrendered immediately to Nietzsche and accepted his works as a revelation, read his works as just that, wrote two important essays and a news- paper article about Nietzsche, and then in 1889 wrote Ung Ofrgs zisor, prose poems decidedly...

... characterizes lucidly the social, aesthetic, and philosophical background: he calls to attention repeatedly the influence of a contrariety of writers (Whitman, Tolstoy, Dostoevski, Strindberg, Rimbaud) ; and he relates not only the obvious link of the subjective, vitalist-romantic element to tradi...

... to moralizing. And so it goes. Even O’Neill’s amateurish enthusiasms for Nietzsche, Freud, Strindberg, and Euripides are taken quite seriously, and his plays studied as moral tracts. Any such preoccupation with the literature of ideas is apt, as Synge once suggested, to be somewhat “joyless...

...- speare, Goethe, Corneille, Dryden, I bsen, Buchner, Brecht, Racine, Schiller, Shaw, and Strindberg. As a scholar’s book, or as an aid to the graduate and better undergraduate student, it is excellent. Incidentally-perhaps not so incidentally, considering the approach and the subject-it has...

... only a few-Hof’mannsthal, Orton, Middleton, Chekhov, Strindberg, Gorky, Chi-au- doux, Gilbert and Sullivan, Sheridan, the Seroiid Sh~pIierd~’Plq, PI Durrenmatt, and innumerable recent stage pieces. There are wonderful anal- yses of plays that fall between genres, such as Wilde’s Lady...