August Strindberg

Plays by August Strindberg

There Are Crimes and Crimes; Miss Julia; The Stronger; Creditors; Pariah

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This vintage book contains five plays by Johan Strindberg, including 'There Are Crimes and Crimes', 'Miss Julie', 'The Stronger', 'Creditors', and 'Pariah'. Johan August Strindberg (1849 - 1912) was a Swedish novelist, playwright, poet, and essayist. Contents include: 'Introduction To "There Are Crimes And Crimes', 'There Are Crimes And Crimes', 'Introduction To "Miss Julia"', 'Author's Preface', 'Miss Julia', 'Introduction To "The Stronger"', 'The Stronger', 'Introduction To "Creditors"', 'Creditors', 'Introduction To "Pariah"', and 'Pariah'. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Obscure Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9781846646096
• ISBN-10: 184664609X
• Artikelnr.: 22381170

Autorenporträt

Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish dramatist, novelist, poet, essayist, and painter. During his four-decade career, Strindberg created more than sixty plays and over thirty books of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics, frequently drawing directly on his own experiences. He was a daring innovator and iconoclast who experimented with a variety of dramatic methods and objectives, including naturalistic tragedy, monodrama, and history plays, as well as his foreshadowing of expressionist and surrealist theatrical tactics. Strindberg pioneered new approaches to dramatic action, vocabulary, and visual composition beginning with his early work. In 1872, the Royal Theatre rejected his first major play, Master Olof; it was not until 1881, at the age of thirty-two, that its premiere at the New Theatre provided him with his theatrical breakthrough. In his plays The Father (1887), Miss Julie (1888), and Creditors (1889), he created naturalistic dramas that - building on the established accomplishments of Henrik Ibsen's prose problem plays while rejecting their use of the structure of the well-made play - responded to Emile Zola's manifesto "Naturalism in the Theatre" (1881) and the example set by André Antoine's newly established Théâtre Libre (opened 1887).