Called "that greatest genius of all modern dramatists" by Eugene O'Neill, Strindberg was one of the founders of the modern theater--a prolific author whose works prefigured those of Pinter, Beckett, and Ionesco. Yet, despite their admiration by such contemporaries as Ibsen, Chekhov, and George Bernard Shaw, Strindberg's works were misunderstood and rejected by his fellow Swedes, who throughout his life considered him a crank and a failure. In this definitive biography, Michael Meyer, the foremost translator of Strindberg's plays into English, presents a full and honest portrait of Strindberg as man and artist. Concentrating on his contribution to the theater, Meyer has sifted through Strindberg's voluminous autobiographical writings as well as published and unpublished letters to discover the source of his art and its meaning to both Strindberg and the theater. He also gives a sense of Strindberg's troubled life--his three tempestuous marriages, his exile, his often disputatious relations with other artists-- and sheds new light on the playwright's supposed misogyny, his bouts with madness, and his paranoia.

Strindberg: A Biography

Meyer, Michael Leverson

Biographies & Memoirs

Oxford University Press

Henrik Ibsen

Hart-Davis

Brief production histories together with Strindberg's own comments on the productions accompany these translations

The Plays of Strindberg (English and Swedish Edition)

STRINDBERG, AUGUST

Random House, Inc.

Ibsen on File (Writers on File)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

METHUEN

Ibsen on File

This book is about Ibsen and the definitive life he led as a founding genius of modern European theatre.

Ibsen

Arts & Literature

Sutton Pub Ltd

Autobiography of the man who has rubbed elbows with literary and theatrical notables

Words Through a Windowpane: A Life in London's Literary and Theatrical Scenes

Grove Pr

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