Meanings
comparative more Strindbergian · superlative most Strindbergian
- Of or pertaining to Johan August Strindberg (1849–1912), Swedish playwright and novelist, or his works.
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.
2015 March 30, Michael Billington, “Look Back in Anger: how John Osborne liberated theatrical language”, in The Guardian
Origin
From Swedish Strindberg + -ian.
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