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Beteiligte: Milton, John
In: Modern Drama, 5, 1962, 3, S. 306-313
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University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
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Umfang: 306-313
ISSN: 1712-5286
0026-7694
DOI: 10.3138/md.5.3.306
veröffentlicht in: Modern Drama
Sprache: Englisch
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Kollektion: University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (CrossRef)
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<jats:p> FROM The Inferno, written in 1896-97, are usually culled those details which support the notion that Strindberg suffered some kind of mental illness, and also those autobiographical incidents which help to explain or interpret the subject matter of the difficult plays, notably To Damascus, which followed the Inferno experience. Strindberg wrote no plays between The Bond (1893) and To Damascus (1898), and it is during this period of dramatic inactivity that his concerns turned away from naturalism and toward expressionism. It is a relatively simple matter to say that the mental illness forced Strindberg's thoughts inward, so far inward that much of his subsequent production was highly personal and private, almost to the point of obscurity. However, there seem to be reasons for reducing the importance of the insanity (if, indeed, there was an actual insanity) and for looking into the techniques of The Inferno in order to determine that Strindberg knew fairly well what he was doing and that he was undergoing a process of change considered quite normal among sensitive artists. </jats:p>