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Strindberg

Strindberg

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A Swedish writer of plays and novels known for Miss Julie
  • proper noun
: Strindberg
  • August Strindberg is considered one of the most influential playwrights of the modern era.
  • Strindberg's plays
  • works of Strindberg
  • Strindberg's Miss

He begins a correspondence with the Scandinavian playwright August Strindberg.

Examples

  • According to this single, intersubjective criterion, Strindberg penned fourteen one-act plays.

    Academic text (1996)

  • Perhaps my experience will be of value to others... just as I pore over with relish the notes of my idols: Chekov and Strindberg.

    Bullets Over Broadway (1994)

  • Have you seen my Strindberg book?

    Match Point (2005)

  • And that would be August Strindberg up in Sweden.

  • They still talk about the Strindberg series.

    Melinda and Melinda (2004)

  • The Strindberg play?

    To Rome with Love (2012)

  • What is the relationship between Strindberg's one-act play and those in more than one act?

    Academic text (1996)

  • In this context, his scattered remarks on Strindberg are particularly illuminating.

    Academic text (1997)

  • On one hand, Strindberg's one-act plays are more stylized and less naturalistic than usually thought.

    Academic text (1996)

  • Barry Jacobs is responsible for a suggestive introduction in Strindberg's One-Act Plays.

    Academic text (1996)

Surface Forms

Strindberg main

Etymology

Strindberg is a Swedish name; the second part -berg means 'mountain' or 'hill', and the first part Strind- probably comes from a word for 'shore' or 'stream'. Think of 'the hill by the shore' as a simple image to remember the famous Swedish writer August Strindberg.