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		August Strindberg (January 22, 1849 - May 14, 1912) was a writer and playwright of Sweden.
		Strindberg was married to three women, all of whom he had children with: Siri von Essen, Frieda Uhl, and Harriet Bosse in chronological order.
		Strindberg is noted for his hatred towards women, but also critical of the male role in society, and was loved by the working classes as a radical writer.
	wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/a/au/august_strindberg.html (151 words)

	August Strindberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Strindberg is known as one of the fathers of modern theatre.
		Strindberg's aunt Lisette was married to the English-born inventor and industrialist Samuel Owen.
		Strindberg's own version of his childhood, as he wanted it to be perceived by others, is available to his readers in his novel The Son of a Servant, but at least one of his biographers, Olof Lagercrantz, warns against using it uncritically as a biographical source.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/August_Strindberg (1369 words)

	August Strindberg - LoveToKnow 1911
		AUGUST STRINDBERG (1849-), Swedish author, was born at Stockholm on the 22nd of January 1849.
		Strindberg's mastery of the art of description is perhaps seen at its best in the novels of life in the Swedish archipelago, in Hemsoborna (" The Inhabitants of Hemsd, 1887), one of the best existing novels of popular Swedish life, and Skarkarlslif (" Life of an Island Lad," 1890).
		Strindberg's first marriage was an unfortunate one, and was dissolved in 1893.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /August_Strindberg (887 words)

	August Strindberg
		Strindberg turned his hand to many things in these early years; he was shoolmaster, journalist, dramatist, writer of scientific and political treatises, and of short stories.
		Strindberg, judged by the great majority of his work, is a dramatist endowed with a trenchant and searching power of analysis and remarkable insight into human nature; his chief plays are exact though narrow views of the feminine soul.
		The Social Significance of August Strindberg - An essay by Emma Goldman on the social significance of Strindberg's dramas and his treatment of women.
	www.theatrehistory.com /misc/august_strindberg_001.html (503 words)

	little blue light - August Strindberg
		August Strindberg was born January 22, 1849 was the third of seven children in the large well-to-do family of a Carl Strindberg, a maritime shipping magnate, and his religious wife Ulrika.
		Strindberg was becoming increasingly bitter and resentful toward his wife, an attitude reflected in the second volume of Married he was working on at the time.
		Strindberg felt humiliated being in a such a position of dependence and again turned his attention to Paris, where he hoped to use the recent Parisian interest in Scandinavian literature to alleviate his financial difficulties.
	www.littlebluelight.com /lblphp/intro.php?ikey=26 (2952 words)

	Strindberg, Johan August. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Strindberg was the unwanted fourth child of a once well-to-do father and a mother who had come to his father’s house as a servant.
		Strindberg’s first mature drama, Master Olaf (written c.1873), showed the influence of Ibsen and Shakespeare; it represented the personality of the author in three characters.
		In the dramas of this period Strindberg began to experiment with visual effects and other aspects of dramatic form, initiating changes that still remain living influences in the modern theater.
	www.bartleby.com /65/st/Strindbe.html (663 words)

	Strindberg, Johan August - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		STRINDBERG, JOHAN AUGUST [Strindberg, Johan August], 1849-1912, Swedish dramatist and novelist.
		Strindberg's first mature drama, Master Olaf (written c.1873), showed the influence of Ibsen and Shakespeare ; it represented the personality of the author in three characters.
		Strindberg's life was complicated by an unsuccessful suit brought against him for blasphemy as a result of his stories in Married (2 vol., 1884-85), which derogated women and denounced conventional religious practices.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/Strindbe.asp (752 words)

	August Strindberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Staying at Gersau in Switzerland in 1886, Strindberg photographed a series of portraits of himself in the roles of author, paterfamilias, gentleman, musician etc. In many of the photographs of the Gersau series the composition is impressionistically asymmetrical with peculiar croppings.
		In the 1890s Strindberg was taken with the ideaa of photographing the human soul and spoke at lenght of "psychological portraits" to be taken with a lensless camera.
		Strindberg was able to realize some of his photographic ideas with assistance of the professional photographers John Lundgren, Otto Johansson and Herman Anderson.
	www.gallen-kallela.fi /artnoir/Strindberg.html (248 words)

	TATE ETC. issue 3: August Strindberg
		August Strindberg (1849 — 1912) was a celebrated playwright, novelist and poet, whose whose writing was often filled with his own sense of despair, anxiety and gloom.
		The Swedish playwright August Strindberg was insatiably curious — a dabbler of genius who spoke five languages and devoted himself to scientific research and even alchemy as much as to writing.
		Strindberg the painter is. He is like digging in the garden and sailing in rough winds.
	www.tate.org.uk /tateetc/issue3/auguststrindberg.htm (1390 words)

	August Strindberg Timeline
		Strindberg defends himself against this lawsuit and is eventually acquitted.
		Strindberg moves to Paris and suffers a series of psychotic episodes which eventually lead to his hopitalization.
		August Strindberg dies in Stockholm of stomach cancer.
	www.theatredatabase.com /20th_century/august_strindberg_timeline.html (477 words)

	Tate Modern \| Past Exhibitions \| August Strindberg: Painter, Photographer, Writer
		August Strindberg (1849-1912) is known as a prolific writer of novels and plays but he was also an extremely radical painter for his time.
		Strindberg turned to painting in times of upheaval in his personal life or when his capacity as a writer failed him.
		Strindberg believed that chance played a vital role in the creative process andÂ explored this concept in his painting, photography and artistic writings.
	www.tate.org.uk /modern/exhibitions/strindberg (260 words)

	BookRags: August Strindberg Biography
		August Strindberg was born on Jan. 22, 1849, in Stockholm.
		Strindberg's last years were comparatively calm, broken only by the "feud" occasioned by the novel Svarta fanor (1907; Black Banners), a final, savage attack on his enemies, real and imagined, all readily identifiable in the book.
		Strindberg came to believe that life is a hideous dream and, in a number of these later plays, dramatizes this view.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/august-strindberg (1414 words)

	Strindberg, Johan August - Facts from the Encyclopedia - Yahoo! Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Strindberg's life was complicated by an unsuccessful suit brought against him for blasphemy as a result of his stories in Married (2 vol., 1884—85), which derogated women and denounced conventional religious practices.
		The Father vividly expresses Strindberg's view of the war between the sexes, in which he saw man as victimized by woman.
		He was precipitated into his "inferno crisis" (1894—96), in which he explored the occult and entertained the delusion that he was persecuted by creatures from another world, an experience later described in Inferno (1897).
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	August Strindberg - Uncyclopedia
		He is the most important writers of the Swedish language next to Saint Petrus and was the person responsible of filling all pages with long rantings about women and drag queens.
		It was generally disliked, and Strindberg was taken to a hospital for treatment.
		As Strindberg was very important, he travelled to more important countries in Europe.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/August_Strindberg (319 words)

	Amazon.ca: Miss Julie: Books: August Strindberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Strindberg's classic play follows the downward spiral of an aristocratic young woman whose break-up with her fiancé is quite the talk of the estate.
		August Strindberg was a weird or very unlucky man. Whole his life he looked for the woman of his life and everytime ended up with strong women that he end up hating.
		Strindberg was also a woman hater in allmost every meaning of the word.
	www.amazon.ca /Miss-Julie-August-Strindberg/dp/185459205X (763 words)

	August Strindberg, playwright - author of 'Lady Julie' ('Miss Julie') publisher Amber Lane Press
		AUGUST STRINDBERG (1849-1912), Sweden’s prolific playwright, novelist and essayist was the third child of a shipping merchant and his former maid-servant.
		Strindberg’s life consisted of periods of tremendous productivity and critical acclaim interspersed with troubled and often poverty-stricken personal episodes.
		Strindberg was working on this and Lady Julie (1888) when his first marriage was breaking up, and he wrote Playing With Fire (1892) when the couple were battling in court over the custody of their children.
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	August Strindberg
		Strindberg was married three times - several of his plays drew on the problems of his marriages and reflected his constant interest in self-analysis.
		A controversial figure, who suffered from the hostility of his critics, Strindberg represented the 19th-century dictate that the goal of life is to become art.
		August Strindberg, Sweden's most famous author, continually sought new avenues for his artistic talents.
	www.odysseetheater.com /strindberg/strindberg.htm (642 words)

	The August spoken dialogue system
		In addition, August had a balloon in which text that was not to be synthesised was displayed.
		The purpose of creating a Strindberg lookalike was to show a well-known character; to indicate some knowledge about Stockholm, history and literature (thus implying the domain of the system) and finally to give the agent a personality.
		A typical utterance from August could consist of either a raising of the eyebrow early in the sentence followed by a small vertical nod on a focal word or stressed syllable, or a small initial raising of the head followed by an eyebrow motion on selected stressed syllables.
	www.speech.kth.se /august/eur99_augsys.html (3040 words)

	August Strindberg - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Strindberg is known as one of the fathers of modern theater.
		Strindberg was married to three women, Siri von Essen, Frieda Uhl, and lastly Harriet Bosse.
		As for his political standpoints, Strindberg has been widely popular in Socialist countries, such as the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and in Cuba.
	voyager.in /August_Strindberg (656 words)

	Selected Poems of August Strindberg \| Strindberg
		August Strindberg (1849—1912) was one of the great innovators of modern drama as well as a novelist, poet, and master of the Swedish language.
		Löfgren explains, “Although August Strindberg is internationally acknowledged as a pioneering realist, expressionist, and surrealist playwright, his poetry is still relatively unknown outside Sweden.
		Strindberg’s stature as a dramatist alone may be adequate justification for offering a translation of his verse, but his poetry stands well on its own.
	www.siu.edu /~siupress/titles/f02_titles/strindberg_selected.htm (270 words)

	August Strindberg
		August was their third son; the couple had nine more children.
		Strindberg became in 1874 an assistant librarian at the Royal Library, serving until his resignation in 1882.
		Strindberg's series of historical plays from this period included GUSTAV VASA, (1899), ERIK XIV (1899), a portrait of a man who was half-genius, half-psychopath, and GUSTAF ADOLF (1900), said to be unplayable, in which the king is an instument of the ideal of religious freedom.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /strindbe.htm (2590 words)

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		August Strindberg hated artifice with all the passion of his being; hence his severe criticism of woman.
		But his longing for, and his need of her, were the crucible of Strindberg, as they have been the crucible of every man, even of the mightiest spirit.
		August Strindberg's arraignment of that force is at the same time a confession of faith.
	dwardmac.pitzer.edu /Anarchist_Archives/goldman/socsig/strindberg.html (560 words)

	Miss Julie - a play by August Strindberg
		Verily, Strindberg knew whereof he spoke -- for he spoke with his soul, a language whose significance is illuminating, compelling.
		August Strindberg, himself the result of the class conflict between his parents, never felt at home with either of them.
		All his life he was galled by the irreconcilability of the classes; and though he was no sermonizer in the sense of offering a definite panacea for individual or social ills, yet with master touch he painted the degrading effects of class distinction and its tragic antagonisms.
	www.theatredatabase.com /20th_century/august_strindberg_004.html (1911 words)

	TheFreeBookShop.com - Home - August Strindberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		One of Strindberg's early plays, The Outlaw, set in ancient Ireland, won him a stipend from Charles XV and allowed him to return to the university, but he quickly began to quarrel with his instructors and dropped out again, eventually retiring to an island and devoting himself to writing.
		In Strindberg's best work, his male and female characters are inevitably bound together in a perverse and dependent relationship, torn between their desire to destroy one another and an equally strong, nymphomaniacal desire for physical possession.
		A master of both naturalism and symbolism, and a forerunner of the expressionism of the post-war theatre, Strindberg continued to write of the alienated modern man, desperate and alone in a forsaken universe until his death in 1912.
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		In 1894, after years of painful struggle and almost univeral rejection by his countrymen, the Swedish playwright August Strindberg suffered a spiritual collapse, an emotional breakdown that left him incapable of creative work.
		Vilified in his homeland for naturalistic works like Miss Julie and The Father, he had already been through two divorces – a third was yet to come – as well as many years of impoverishment and the loss of his three children from his first marriage.
		Yet he was a man who possessed demonic persistence, and the route out of his impasse led through one of the strangest episodes in the turbulent life of a master of modern literature.
	www.forteantimes.com /articles/180_strindberg1.shtml (610 words)

	August Strindberg
		The "red room" was the meeting-place in a small café in Stockholm of a society of needy journalists and artists, whose failure and despair are shown off against the prosperity of a typical bourgeois couple.
		Two comedies drawn from medieval subjects, Gillets hemlighet ("The Secret of the Guild", 1880) and herr Bengt's Hustru ("Bengt's Wife", 1882), were followed by the legendary drama of Lycko Pers resa ("The Journal of Lucky Peter"), written in 1882 and produced with great success on the stage a year later.
		Strindberg's mastery of the art of description is perhaps seen at its best in the novels of life in the Swedish archipelago, in Hemsöborna ("The Inhabitants of Hemsö", 1887), one of the best existing novels of popular Swedish life, and Skärkarlslif ("Life of an Island Lad", 1890).
	www.nndb.com /people/187/000097893 (752 words)

	Jens Bj rneboe: Strindberg the fertile
		In Strindberg this is the real spiritual difference between the sexes, and all his dissections of women have this object: to test whether it is not possible to find an organ of truth in women too — despite everything.
		Strindberg stands on the other side of the watershed; he is a modern person in a wholly different sense.
		August Strindberg's literary production was enormous; it is inhomogeneous and varied — and like nearly all writers he has central works and less central works, complete and incomplete things.
	emurer.home.att.net /texts/strindberg.htm (1766 words)

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