This book offers a detailed critical analysis of Strindberg's major works in performance, created after his psychic upheaval, which he called his "Inferno." Ranging from the early productions of Max Reinhardt and Olof Molander to the reinterpretations of Robert Lepage, Robert Wilson, and Ingmar Bergman, the study explores the crucial impact of this dramatist's method of playwriting. Each chapter ends with a section devoted to innovative Strindberg performances on the contemporary stage.
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"Superb illustrations and an effective discussion of various directors'approaches to [Strindberg's] works.... Recommended." Choice
"Frederick and Lise-Lone Marker excel at what they do: they create living histories of individual performances. They are indeed so good at what they do that it is probably caviling to note that they do not succeed at proving that "these plays...have had a compelling impact on modernist and postmodernist theatre and theatrical theory" (ix). Nonetheless, Strindberg and Modernist Theatre stands as an important contribution to an understanding of Strindberg's plays as theater." Scandinavian Studies, Marilyn Johns Blackwell, Ohio State University
"Frederick and Lise-Lone Marker excel at what they do: they create living histories of individual performances. They are indeed so good at what they do that it is probably caviling to note that they do not succeed at proving that "these plays...have had a compelling impact on modernist and postmodernist theatre and theatrical theory" (ix). Nonetheless, Strindberg and Modernist Theatre stands as an important contribution to an understanding of Strindberg's plays as theater." Scandinavian Studies, Marilyn Johns Blackwell, Ohio State University
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This book offers a detailed critical analysis of Strindberg's major works in performance, created after his psychic upheaval, he called his Inferno. Ranging from the early productions of Max Reinhardt and Olof Molander to the reinterpretations of Robert Lepage, Robert Wilson, and Ingmar Bergman, this study explores the crucial impact that this writer's allusive (and elusive) method of playwriting has had on the changing nature of the theatrical experience. Each chapter of the book ends with a section devoted to innovative Strindberg performances on the contemporary stage.
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It could be said of August Strindberg, as it has often been said of Yeats, that he wrote himself out of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Ghost Sonata, Young Lady, Dream Plat, Fingal's Cave, Ingmar Bergman, City Theatre, Lars Hanson, Harriet Bosse, Daughter of Indra, Goldmaker's Banquet, Flowering Castle, Robert Wilson, Royal Theatre, Song of the Sun, Srenska Dagbladet, The Crown-Bride, The Dance, Kragh Jacobsen, Lars Ring, Lorensberg Theatre, Max Reinhardt, Miss Julie, Nils Beyer, Olof Molander, Per Erik New!
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It could be said of August Strindberg, as it has often been said of Yeats, that he wrote himself out of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Ghost Sonata, Young Lady, Dream Plat, Fingal's Cave, Ingmar Bergman, City Theatre, Lars Hanson, Harriet Bosse, Daughter of Indra, Goldmaker's Banquet, Flowering Castle, Robert Wilson, Royal Theatre, Song of the Sun, Srenska Dagbladet, The Crown-Bride, The Dance, Kragh Jacobsen, Lars Ring, Lorensberg Theatre, Max Reinhardt, Miss Julie, Nils Beyer, Olof Molander, Per Erik New!
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- A Dream Play by Caryl Churchill on 38 pages
- Ghost Sonata and When We Dead Awaken (Crofts Classics) by August Strindberg on 26 pages
- Miss Julie (Dover Thrift Editions) by August Strindberg on page 11, page 118, and Back Matter
- Scenes from a Marriage by Ingmar; Blair, Alan (translator) Bergman on page 40, and page 41
- August Strindberg: Selected Essays by August Strindberg in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- New Theatre Quarterly 75: Volume 19, Part 3 (v. 19) by Simon Trussler in Back Cover
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