Strindberg

American  

[strind-burg, strin-, strin-bar-y^uh] / ˈstrɪnd bɜrg, ˈstrɪn-, ˈstrɪnˌbær jə /

noun

1. Johan August 1849–1912, Swedish novelist, dramatist, and essayist.

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Strindberg British  

/ ˈstrɪndbærj, ˈstrɪndbɜːɡ /

noun

1. August (ˈauɡʊst). 1849–1912, Swedish dramatist and novelist, whose plays include The Father (1887), Miss Julie (1888), and The Ghost Sonata (1907)

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Strindberg

She was intrigued to learn, for example, that “my great-grandfather’s half niece was married to August Strindberg, the Swedish playwright and all-around nasty person.”

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 11, 2023

So I think the book “Stella Adler on Ibsen, Strindberg and Chekhov” will be in Saskia’s Christmas stocking.

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2022

Indeed, it might be more in keeping with the darker works of August Strindberg, Anton Chekhov and Samuel Beckett, all of whom John drolly promises to steer clear of.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2021

The vampirically needy Michael, the snobbish and pompous Ralph and the increasingly fanatical Hilda might have stepped out of a Strindberg closet drama — three studies in mutually inflicted torture.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2021

But there were two facts that prevented Strindberg from proceeding farther along this line of thought.

From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Otto Heller

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