Strindberg and Modernist Theatre Post-Inferno Drama on the Stage |
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| Author:
| Marker, Frederick J.
Marker, Lise-Lone |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-03939-0 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2007 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $43.99 |
Book Description:
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This book offers a detailed critical analysis of Strindberg's major works in performance, created after his psychic upheaval, he called his Inferno. Ranging from the early productions of Max Reinhardt and Olof Molander to the reinterpretations of Robert Lepage, Robert Wilson, and Ingmar Bergman, this study explores the crucial impact that this writer's allusive (and elusive) method of playwriting has had on the changing nature of the theatrical experience. Each chapter of the book ends...
More DescriptionThis book offers a detailed critical analysis of Strindberg's major works in performance, created after his psychic upheaval, he called his Inferno. Ranging from the early productions of Max Reinhardt and Olof Molander to the reinterpretations of Robert Lepage, Robert Wilson, and Ingmar Bergman, this study explores the crucial impact that this writer's allusive (and elusive) method of playwriting has had on the changing nature of the theatrical experience. Each chapter of the book ends with a section devoted to innovative Strindberg performances on the contemporary stage.