Presents the latest research on the Swedish playwright August Strindberg and his relation to modern and contemporary literature and art. In her compelling introduction, Anna Westerståhl Stenport argues that Strindberg's work embodies and promotes the spirit of internationalism that emerged at the end of the nineteenth century.

Anna Westerståhl Stenport is the director of the Scandinavian Program and an associate professor in the departments of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Comparative and World Literature, Media and Cinema Studies, Theatre, Gender and Women's Studies, and Criticism and Interpretive Theory, and in the Global Studies Program in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Illinois.