August Strindberg

August Strindberg Criticism

• Introduction
• Principal Works
• Criticism: General Commentary
  • Collecting the Corpse in the Cargo
  • Strindberg's Dream Play Technique
  • The Camera and the Aesthetics of Repetition: Strindberg's Use of Space and Scenography in Miss Julie, A Dream Play, and The Ghost Sonata
  • The Plans, Drafts, and Manuscripts of the Historical Plays in Strindberg's ‘Green Bag.’
  • Strindberg's Advent and Brott och brott: Sagospel and Comedy in a Higher Court
  • Perspectives on a Genre: Strindberg's comédies rosses
  • Strindberg's History Plays: Some Reflections
  • The Politics of the Interior: Strindberg's Chamber Plays
  • The Strindbergian One-Act Play
  • Strindberg's Early Dramas and Lacan's ‘Law of the Father.’
• Criticism: Fadren (The Father)
  • Strindberg's Father: Symbolism, Nihilism, Myth
  • Child's Play: The Cradle Song in Strindberg's Fadren
• Criticism: FröKen Julie (Miss Julie)
  • The Arts: Turn up the Heat
  • Strindberg and Suggestion in Miss Julie
  • Symbolism in Miss Julie
  • Miss Julie—The Ballet, 1950-1
  • The Daughter's Double Bind: The Single-parent Family as Cultural Analogue in Two Turn-of-the-Century Dramas
• Criticism: Brott Och Brott (Crimes And Crimes)
• Criticism: DöDsdansen (The Dance Of Death)
  • To Stay Alive, Snipe, Snipe
  • A Marrowing Odyssey to the Heart of Marital Hell
  • More of Strindberg's Peace amid Misery
• Unreality in Plays of Ibsen, Strindberg and Hamsun
• Strindberg's Queen Christina: Eve and Pandora
• Criticism: PåSke (Easter)
  • Easter: Persephone's Return
  • The Intertestamental Dispensation of Strindberg's Easter
  • The Path from Inferno to the Chamber Plays: Easter and Swedenborg
• Fairytale Love Among the Archetypes
• Criticism: Carl Xii (Charles Xii)
  • The Formal Tension in Strindberg's Carl XII
  • Verbal and Visual Scenery in Strindberg's Historical Plays: The Opening of Carl XII as Paradigmatic Example
• Criticism: Gustav Iii
  • Strindberg's Gustav III: The Player King on the Stage of History
  • Historical Vision and Dramatic Historiography: Strindberg's Gustav III in Light of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Corneille's Cinna
• Letting Silence Speak of Anguish in Strindberg
• Textual Clues to Performance Strategies in The Pelican.
• Abu Casems tofflor: Strindberg's Worst Play?
• Svarta Handsken (The Black Glove)
• Further Reading