附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
摘要:Critique of the plot construction, characterization, dialogue, style, subject matter, and techniques used by Strindberg in his historical plays.
