Author: Egil Törnqvist
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN: 9789053564547
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Generally considered one of milestones in the development of modern drama, August Strindberg's chamber play "The Ghost Sonata" (1907) has variously been hailed as the first expressionist, surrealist and absurdist drama. In this monograph of the play as text and as performance --the first of its kind--Egil Tornqvist examines, in four chapters, the source text, various translations of it into English, the stage versions of Max Reinhardt, Olof Molander and Ingmar Bergman, and select radio and TV adaptations. In two framing chapters the background and impact of the play are illuminated. Focusing on Bergman's 1973 production, the book in addition contains a rehearsal diary and a transcription of this production. It is concluded with an annotated list of select productions.
Strindberg's The Ghost Sonata
Author: Egil Törnqvist
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN: 9789053564547
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Generally considered one of milestones in the development of modern drama, August Strindberg's chamber play "The Ghost Sonata" (1907) has variously been hailed as the first expressionist, surrealist and absurdist drama. In this monograph of the play as text and as performance --the first of its kind--Egil Tornqvist examines, in four chapters, the source text, various translations of it into English, the stage versions of Max Reinhardt, Olof Molander and Ingmar Bergman, and select radio and TV adaptations. In two framing chapters the background and impact of the play are illuminated. Focusing on Bergman's 1973 production, the book in addition contains a rehearsal diary and a transcription of this production. It is concluded with an annotated list of select productions.
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN: 9789053564547
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Generally considered one of milestones in the development of modern drama, August Strindberg's chamber play "The Ghost Sonata" (1907) has variously been hailed as the first expressionist, surrealist and absurdist drama. In this monograph of the play as text and as performance --the first of its kind--Egil Tornqvist examines, in four chapters, the source text, various translations of it into English, the stage versions of Max Reinhardt, Olof Molander and Ingmar Bergman, and select radio and TV adaptations. In two framing chapters the background and impact of the play are illuminated. Focusing on Bergman's 1973 production, the book in addition contains a rehearsal diary and a transcription of this production. It is concluded with an annotated list of select productions.
The Ghost Sonata
Author: August Strindberg
Publisher: i.e. Clark
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Publisher: i.e. Clark
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Ghost Sonata
Author: August Strindberg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Corruption
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Corruption
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
The Ghost Sonata
Author: August Strindberg
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780881456370
Category : Apartments
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Ghosts drift through Strindberg's haunted and haunting dreamscape where a student idealizes the inhabitants of a stylish Stockholm apartment building, only to discover that their lives, perhaps even life itself, may be a kind of hell from which salvation can only be achieved through suffering.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780881456370
Category : Apartments
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Ghosts drift through Strindberg's haunted and haunting dreamscape where a student idealizes the inhabitants of a stylish Stockholm apartment building, only to discover that their lives, perhaps even life itself, may be a kind of hell from which salvation can only be achieved through suffering.
A Study Guide for August Strindberg's "The Ghost Sonata"
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410346722
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
A Study Guide for August Strindberg's "The Ghost Sonata," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410346722
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
A Study Guide for August Strindberg's "The Ghost Sonata," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
Strindberg Plays: 1
Author: August Strindberg
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472574044
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This volume contains three of Strindberg's most famous plays, spanning twenty years of prodigious creativity and recurrent personal crises: The Father, which displays Strindberg's suspicion of women at its most implacable, 'powerful and profound' (Guy de Maupassant); Miss Julie (1888), which he called his masterpiece, and in which he presents with startling modernity the conflict between sexual passion and social position; and The Ghost Sonata (1907), written in physical pain and spiritual torment, which is a phantasmagoric dream play, 'a direct source for the Theatre of the Absurd' (Martin Esslin)."Michael Meyer is the translator most actors turn to when seeking a definitive text" (Sunday Times)
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472574044
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This volume contains three of Strindberg's most famous plays, spanning twenty years of prodigious creativity and recurrent personal crises: The Father, which displays Strindberg's suspicion of women at its most implacable, 'powerful and profound' (Guy de Maupassant); Miss Julie (1888), which he called his masterpiece, and in which he presents with startling modernity the conflict between sexual passion and social position; and The Ghost Sonata (1907), written in physical pain and spiritual torment, which is a phantasmagoric dream play, 'a direct source for the Theatre of the Absurd' (Martin Esslin)."Michael Meyer is the translator most actors turn to when seeking a definitive text" (Sunday Times)
Strindberg’s "The Ghost Sonata": A Modern Drama in Performance
Author: Francis Grin
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3640234251
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Scientific Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Theater Studies, Dance, grade: H1, University of Melbourne, course: Modern Drama, language: English, abstract: August Strindberg’s The Ghost Sonata does not suggest a realistic portrait of life, rather, like a dream, this play offers a subjective experience of the world. It is a highly modern text as it blurs the realms of real and illusion to expose the world in all its scary ambivalence, questioning the old doctrine and the notion of ‘one great truth’. In this way, The Ghost Sonata requires a dramaturgy which rejects realist styles of theatre and adopts an expressionist form. The Ghost Sonata’s world premiere, loosely directed by August Falck, was staged at Strindberg’s Intima Teatern in Stockholm (1908). Although the premiere did not exactly stun its audiences, it had planted the seeds for an expressionist dramaturgy which would later fully blossom and resonate in the set design, characterization, and overall rhythm used in subsequent productions. For example, Ingmar Bergman’s 2001 staging of the play in New York (done by Royal Dramatic Theatre of Sweden and presented by the Brooklyn Academy of Music at The Harvey Lichtenstein Theatre) is an example of how The Ghost Sonata was milked for its theatrical potential, conveying how this play’s dramaturgical journal has cleared the stage for something extraordinary.
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3640234251
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Scientific Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Theater Studies, Dance, grade: H1, University of Melbourne, course: Modern Drama, language: English, abstract: August Strindberg’s The Ghost Sonata does not suggest a realistic portrait of life, rather, like a dream, this play offers a subjective experience of the world. It is a highly modern text as it blurs the realms of real and illusion to expose the world in all its scary ambivalence, questioning the old doctrine and the notion of ‘one great truth’. In this way, The Ghost Sonata requires a dramaturgy which rejects realist styles of theatre and adopts an expressionist form. The Ghost Sonata’s world premiere, loosely directed by August Falck, was staged at Strindberg’s Intima Teatern in Stockholm (1908). Although the premiere did not exactly stun its audiences, it had planted the seeds for an expressionist dramaturgy which would later fully blossom and resonate in the set design, characterization, and overall rhythm used in subsequent productions. For example, Ingmar Bergman’s 2001 staging of the play in New York (done by Royal Dramatic Theatre of Sweden and presented by the Brooklyn Academy of Music at The Harvey Lichtenstein Theatre) is an example of how The Ghost Sonata was milked for its theatrical potential, conveying how this play’s dramaturgical journal has cleared the stage for something extraordinary.
Six Plays of Strindberg
Author: August Strindberg
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The Father; Miss Julie; The Stronger; Easter; A Dream Play; The Ghost Sonata.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The Father; Miss Julie; The Stronger; Easter; A Dream Play; The Ghost Sonata.
The Father
Author: August Strindberg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
These translations first published in London bt Secker and Warburg in 1964.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
These translations first published in London bt Secker and Warburg in 1964.
The Chamber Plays
Author: August Strindberg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description