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Amsterdam University Press, 2007, 207 p., ISBN 9789053560204. Selected, translated, and edited by Egil Törnqvist and Birgitta Steene. Together with Norway's Henrik Ibsen and Russia's Anton Chekhov, Sweden's August Strindberg (1849-1912) has long been recognized as a leading dramatist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Of these three, Strindberg has proven the most seminal to the development of modern drama. Selections include most of Strindberg's significant statements on drama and theatre. Most, but not all, for we have tried to avoid repetitiveness by limiting, for example, similar statements to different addressees and by leaving out certain technical descriptions related to specific productions. Contents: Preface. Introduction. Strindberg on Drama and Theatre. 1870-1880. 1881-1889. 1891-1899. 1900-1906. 1907-1912. Strindberg's Plays. Notes. Select Bibliography. Name and Title Index. Subject Index. Sweden's August Strindberg (1849-1912) has long been recognised as one of the leading dramatists around the turn of the last century. His electrifying theatre work resonated with the public in his lifetime, and continues to grip playwrights and audiences today. A restless innovator of various drama forms, he was a source of inspiration for Eugene O'Neill, Samuel Beckett and Ingmar Bergman, and has proved seminal to the development of modern drama. His preface to Miss Julie and his prefatory note to A Dream Play are well known and often reprinted. What is less well known is that Strindberg frequently commented on drama and theatre in general, and on his own plays and their staging in particular. This book presents the most important of these comments, chronologically assembled and annotated, many of them for the first time in an English translation. An essential resource for those interested in one of the most influential modern playwrights and for the dedicated theatre lover

Although television drama has existed for more than half a century and is now, in terms of audience participation, the dominant form of theatre, "there is as yet hardly any serious criticism of drama on television." Martin Esslin's statement ten years ago still holds true. Seeing it as a challenge, Egil Törnqvist compares various Scandinavian and British TV versions of some of Ibsen's and Strindberg's best known plays.

By means of close readings of textual passages, followed by transcriptions and analyses of the corresponding passages in the productions, Törnqvist throws a revealing light on the difference between the textual and the audiovisual medium as well as between various directorial approaches. The first book to deal with the adaptation of stage drama to the small screen, it fills a gap both for students of drama and theatre and for those generally interested in television drama as an art form.

Although television drama has existed for more than half a century and is now, in terms of audience participation, the dominant form of theatre, "there is as yet hardly any serious criticism of drama on television." Martin Esslin's statement ten years ago still holds true. Seeing it as a challenge, Egil Trnqvist compares various Scandinavian and British TV versions of some of Ibsen's and Strindberg's best known plays. By means of close readings of textual passages, followed by transcriptions and analyses of the corresponding passages in the productions, Trnqvist throws a revealing light on the difference between the textual and the audiovisual medium as well as between various directorial approaches. The first book to deal with the adaptation of stage drama to the small screen, it fills a gap both for students of drama and theatre and for those generally interested in television drama as an art form. Strindberg On Drama And Theatre -- 1870-1880 -- 1881-1889 -- 1891-1899 -- 1900-1906 -- 1907-1912 -- Strindberg's Plays. Selected, Translated, And Edited By Egil Törnqvist And Birgitta Steene. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 190-194) And Indexes. By means of close readings of textual passages, followed by transcriptions and analyses of the corresponding passages in the productions Tornqvist compares various Scandinavian and British TV versions of some of Ibsen's and Strindberg's plays Thirteen of the most important dramas written by Ibsen and Strindberg compared with their adaptations for television.