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A talented young Swedish woman sacrifices her art for marriage to an older man, only to be tempted into passion by her friendship with a handsome young man.
The Enchantment
The extraordinary and mesmeric play by the Swedish author who was reputedly a model for Miss Julie and Hedda Gabler. One sunny day in Paris, Gustave Alland, famous artist and philanderer, visits Louise Strandberg - convalescing in her brother's studio - and casts her effortlessly under his spell. In a vain attempt to escape, she exiles herself to her provincial hometown in Sweden. But a letter propels her back to Paris and into his arms. And for a brief moment, ecstasy is hers. Victoria Benedictsson's play The Enchantment was written shortly before her suicide in 1888. This English version by Clare Bayley was first staged at the National Theatre, London, in July 2007.
Victoria Benedictsson (1890)
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Modern
Victoria Benedictsson (1850-88) var en svensk författare och dramatiker som lät publicera sig under pseudonymen Ernst Ahlgren. Trots den korta tid som hennes författargärning omfattade anses hon som en av de främsta bland 1880-talets realistiska författare.Vid sin död efterlämnade Benedictsson ett stort antal halvfärdiga manuskript, skisser och utkast - ett material hon valt att testamentera till vännen och författarkollegan Axel Lundegård. Bland dessa texter fanns den ofullbordade romanen Modern som färdigställdes av Lundegård och utgavs 1888.Vänskapen mellan Benedictsson och Lundegård var djup, men inte problemfri. Då Lundegård förälskar sig i en herrgårdsflicka leder detta till ett triangeldrama. Benedictsson påbörjar Modern, där författaren blottar sitt känsloliv och sin svartsjuka. I verket möter vi en mor, hennes son och dennes fästmö - tre karaktärer i vilka man kan igenkänna Benedictsson själv, Lundegård och dennes förälskelse - och möjligen ger boken delvis svar på frågan varför Benedictsson valde att släcka sitt liv.
Final
Victoria Benedictsson (1850-88) var en svensk författare och dramatiker som lät publicera sig under pseudonymen Ernst Ahlgren. Trots den korta tid som hennes författargärning omfattade anses hon som en av de främsta bland 1880-talets realistiska författare.Final (1885) är ett drama i tre akter och något för den här tiden så ovanligt som ett samarbete mellan två författare, Victoria Benedictsson och Axel Lundegård. Dramat utspelar sig under tre vårdagar i en svensk landsortsstad. Här möter vi paret Bruhn, som har återkommande fester där societeten närvarar. Men bakom den vackra ytan, med sitt sociala spel, döljer sig en krass verklighet...Dramat, som hade urpremiär först 1888, då Benedictsson inte längre var i livet, avhandlar bl.a. frågor om jämställdhet och ekonomisk ansvarslöshet på ett sådant sätt att verket känns relevant än idag, mer än hundra år efter det skrevs.
Kierkegaard's Influence on Literature, Criticism and Art
Vol. 2 is dedicated to the use of Kierkegaard by later Danish writers. Almost from the beginning Kierkegaard's works were standard reading for these authors. Danish novelists and critics from the Modern Breakthrough movement in the 1870s were among the first to make extensive use of his writings. These included the theoretical leader of the movement, the critic Georg Brandes, who wrote an entire book on Kierkegaard, and the novelists Jens Peter Jacobsen and Henrik Pontoppidan
Laughter and Civility
Emma Gad (1852–1921) was a prolific Danish playwright at the turn of the twentieth century. With sparkling prose and witty dialogue, Gad’s ambitious and sophisticated theatrical productions raised important and still pressing questions about sexuality and morality—including the status of women in marriage, divorce, same‐sex desire, and marital infidelity. Through her plays she engaged with contemporaries like Henrik Ibsen, Oscar Wilde, and George Bernard Shaw, yet she is primarily remembered for her etiquette book, Takt og Tone. Laughter and Civility, the first biographical and scholarly volume to examine and contextualize her dramas, deeply explores how and why influential women are so often excluded from the canon. Lynn R. Wilkinson provides insightful readings into all twenty-five of Gad’s plays and demonstrates how writers and intellectuals of the time, including Georg and Edvard Brandes, took her critically acclaimed work seriously. This volume rightfully reinstates Emma Gad’s work into the repertory of European drama and is crucial for scholars interested in turn‐of‐the‐century Scandinavian drama, literature, culture, and politics.
The Cambridge Companion to August Strindberg
August Strindberg is one of the most enduring of nineteenth-century dramatists, and is also an internationally recognised novelist, autobiographer, and painter. This Companion presents contributions by leading international scholars on different aspects of Strindberg's highly colourful life and work. The essays focus primarily on his most celebrated plays; these include the Naturalist Dramas, The Father and Miss Julie; the experimental dramas with which he created a true modernist theatre – To Damascus and A Dream Play; and the Chamber Plays of 1908 which, like so much of his work, exerted a powerful influence on much later twentieth-century drama. His plays are contextualised for what they contribute both to the history of drama and developments in theatre practice, and other essays clarify the enormous importance to these dramas of his other work, most notably the autobiographical novel Inferno, and his lifelong interest in science, the occult, sexual politics, and the visual arts.
