August Strindberg
Johan August Strindberg (1849 - 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. But even before Married Life , August Strindberg's reputation as the scourge of the Swedish Establishment made it impossible for him to live in his own country. Strindberg's career spanned four decades, during which time he wrote over sixty plays and more than thirty works of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics. A bold experimenter and iconoclast throughout, he...See more
Johan August Strindberg (1849 - 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. But even before Married Life , August Strindberg's reputation as the scourge of the Swedish Establishment made it impossible for him to live in his own country. Strindberg's career spanned four decades, during which time he wrote over sixty plays and more than thirty works of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics. A bold experimenter and iconoclast throughout, he explored a wide range of dramatic methods and purposes, from naturalistic tragedy, monodrama, and history plays, to his anticipations of expressionist and surrealist dramatic techniques. See less
