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Gustav Adolf is Strindberg, but it is scarcely "modem drama." It is important for the understanding of the later Strindberg, but it cannot be called a drama for today's stage. In his lengthy introduction, Professor Johnson makes it clear that we are dealing with a Buch- drama.

In Strindberg's "Kristina" (1903), a queen reared to be a man fights for her self existence, against her feminine nature and succumbing to it. The play is the unacknowledged basis for the Garbo film "Queen Christina." In this skillful study of a neurotic and complex woman, Strindberg reveals the power of his dramatic conceptions and the mastery he had acquired of his craft. The play was the last of a series of Strindberg's later historical dramas...