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Strindbergian

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Etymology

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From Strindberg +‎ -ian.

Adjective

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Strindbergian (comparative more Strindbergian, superlative most Strindbergian)

  1. Of or pertaining to Johan August Strindberg (1849–1912), Swedish playwright and novelist, or his works.
    • 2015 March 30, Michael Billington, “Look Back in Anger: how John Osborne liberated theatrical language”, in The Guardian[1]:
      In the 1950s the play was prized, above all, as a social document: an eloquent testament of alienated youth. Later it came to be seen as a Strindbergian study of a marriage steeped in love and hate.