![]() Original resource extent: 107 pages : paper 23 x 37 centimeters. "Shelfmark: Vp 79m"-Note extracted from World Digital Library. Title devised, in English, by Library staff. It's finished!" Strindberg was referring to the lover waiting in the theater corridor, "corridor man," in the play. She returned to Strindberg 44 days after leaving him, after she received a note with the line, "Come to dinner and read about the Corridor man. In his despair, he wrote A Dream Play, which he dedicated to Bosse. Bosse had written to Strindberg the day before, on August 22, informing him that she was leaving him. An entry in From an Occult Diary, from August 23, 1901, contains the first mention of what would become the play. In 1901, Strindberg wrote Ett drömspel (A dream play), which was closely tied to his engagement and subsequent wedding in the same year to the actress Harriet Bosse (1878-1961). In addition to writing plays, he devoted his time to nature research, painting, and photography. Strindberg traveled extensively in Europe and lived abroad for extended periods. His breakthrough came in 1879 with publication of the novel The Red Room. It was there that he acquired much of his considerable knowledge of cultural history and literature. From 1874 to 1882 he worked at the National Library of Sweden in Stockholm. Strindberg grew up in Stockholm and studied at Uppsala University. ![]() Internationally, he is known for his plays. From the 1870s until his death, he was a dominant figure in Swedish literary circles. ![]() ‘Eros is not the main theme’, explained Strindberg to Anna Flygare, who was to play Swanwhite, ‘the symbolism relates to Caritas, the great love which suffers everything, forgives, hopes, and believes, however much it is betrayed.August Strindberg (1849-1912) was one of Sweden's most important writers. The elegance of the play’s structure and stagecraft goes far to guard against sentimentality. ![]() ![]() Its young lovers are hardly more than children indeed it is the resolution of the relationship between Swanwhite and the mother image, split between stepmother and guardian angel, which has to be achieved before her love of the Prince can be fulfilled. Unlike the realistically framed Blue Bird, it is not technically a dream play, but is set entirely in a fairytale palace (for which young Knut Ström designed a charming art nouveau set). This was one of his most popular plays, a fairytale piece, half-intended for children, like the earlier Lucky Peter’s Travels and The Keys of the Kingdom. In a third work, Swanwhite, he created an example of the same genre as Maeterlinck’s The Blue Bird and its sequel, The Betrothal, but antedating them. Strindberg acknowledged Maeterlinck’s influence on his peasant play, The Crown Bride, and on A Dream Play. ![]()
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