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326 pages ; 22 cm |
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Strindberg's interest in history -- Plans and fulfillment -- Apprenticeship and experiment -- Master Olof: achievement and ordeal -- The secret of the guild and Lord Bengt's wife: two plays for Siri -- The saga of the folkungs: the lamb, the shepherds, and the wolves -- Gustav Vasa: the wonder man of God -- Erik XIV: doomed to misfortune -- Gustav Adolf: deliverer from bondage -- Charles XII: Madman of the north -- Engelbrekt: a most beautiful memory -- Queen Christina: the strangest creature God ever created -- Gustav III: a hero and a dancing master -- The nightingale of Wittenberg: the trojan horse and Germany's biggest voice -- Moses, Socrates, and Christ: instruments of the conscious will -- The last of the knights and The regent: coping with evil -- Earl Birger of Bjalbo: the father's eye. |
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Strindberg, August, 1849-1912 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Historical drama, Swedish -- History and criticism.
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