Strindberg, August
Strindberg, August (1849–1912),Swedish playwright. His early drama Lycko‐Pers Resa (Lucky Per's Journey, 1881) suggested that Strindberg was familiar with narrative folklore; and various folk beliefs make their way into such late symbolic plays as Spöksonaten (The Ghost Sonata, 1907). Admiration for Hans Christian Andersen reveals itself in Sagor (Tales, 1903), in which Strindberg imitates the Dane's whimsical and experimental use of the folk tale and Märchen.
Niels Ingwersen
Bibliography
Mays, Milton A., ‘Strindberg's Ghost Sonata: Parodied Fairy Tale on Original Sin’, Modern Drama, 10 (1967).
Syndergaard, Larry, ‘The Skogsra of Folklore and Strindberg's The Crown Bride’, Comparative Drama, 6 (1972).
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