WHEN GHOSTS APPEAR ON THE STAGE - YEATS AND THE THREE SWEDES

Among W.B. Yeats's dramatic ancestors were Greeks, Shakespeare, and August Strindberg. Strindberg's The Ghost Sonata represents the interaction of the two worlds of the dead and the living, which is the very theme of many of Yeats's plays. Their shared concerns with the spiritual can...

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Published in:Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 1991-01, Vol.16 (1), p.31-45
Main Author: Ohno, Mitsuko
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Film criticism
Motion picture industry
Movies
Mystics
Noh theater
Prayer
Sonatas
Soul
Theater
Unicorns
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Summary:Among W.B. Yeats's dramatic ancestors were Greeks, Shakespeare, and August Strindberg. Strindberg's The Ghost Sonata represents the interaction of the two worlds of the dead and the living, which is the very theme of many of Yeats's plays. Their shared concerns with the spiritual can be explained from the influence they both received from Emanuel Swedenborg, but Yeats's encounter with Japanese Noh drama made him divert from Strindberg. The same theme of presenting the unseen seeable on the stage in a symbolic-realistic manner was later attempted by Ingmar Bergman, another Swedish film and stage director.
ISSN:0171-5410