Strindberg And The Symbolist Drama
1962; University of Toronto Press; Volume: 5; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3138/md.5.3.314
ISSN1712-5286
Autores Tópico(s)Theatre and Performance Studies
ResumoTHE EFFORT of the symbolist poets and dramatists of the 1890's to create a drama in accord with their poetics of suggestiveness, mystery, and occult correspondences, was a major impulse shaping the development of the modem theater. While the leading symbolist playwrights were French and Belgian writers who had come under the direct influence of Villiers de l'Isle-Adam and Mallarme, the new movement rapidly spread throughout Europe, affecting the work of dramatists who were not symbolists in any strict sense, but who responded to the new emphasis on dream, magic, and atmospheric evocation perhaps best exemplified in the early plays of Maeterlinck. Such varied writers as Hofmannsthal, Hauptmann, Yeats, and Strindberg drew upon the experiments and innovations of the symbolists and. contributed to their effort to bring about a theater of fantasy, musicality, and poetry.
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