August Strindberg Selected Essays [Paperback]

This is a fully edited translation of a series of essays by the great Swedish dramatist August Strindberg.This is the first fully edited translation of a series of essays by the great Swedish dramatist August Strindberg. The essays, edited and translated by Michael Robinson, have been selected for the light they shed, both directly and indirectly, on Strindberg's contribution to the European theatre, firstly in such masterpieces of psychological realism as The Father and Miss Julie, and subsequently in those works, including A Dream Play and The Ghost Sonata with which he largely established a basis for theatrical modernism.This is the first fully edited translation of a series of essays by the great Swedish dramatist August Strindberg. The essays, edited and translated by Michael Robinson, have been selected for the light they shed, both directly and indirectly, on Strindberg's contribution to the European theatre, firstly in such masterpieces of psychological realism as The Father and Miss Julie, and subsequently in those works, including A Dream Play and The Ghost Sonata with which he largely established a basis for theatrical modernism.This is the first fully edited translation of a series of essays by the great Swedish dramatist August Strindberg. The essays, edited and translated by Michael Robinson, have been selected for the light they shed, both directly and indirectly, on Strindberg's contribution to the European theater, first in such masterpieces of psychological realism as The Father and Miss Julie, and subsequently in those works, including A Dream Play and The Ghost Sonata, with which he largely established a basis for theatrical modernism.Notes on the text; Introduction; Part I. From Vivisections (1887): 1. 'The battle of the brains'; 2. 'Nemesis Divina'; 3. 'Mysticism - for now'; 4. 'Soul murder (Apropos Rosmersholm)'; 'On modern drama and modern theatre' (1889); Part II. From Vivisections II (1894): 5. 'I'; 6. 'The making of Aspasia'; 7. 'Nemesis Dl!