Plats på scen: samtida dramatik och scenkonst i Sverige, 7.5 högskolepoäng

SW = available on the StudyWeb

SH = available at Södertörn library

Skönlitteratur (Drama/Plays) 

Ibsen, Henrik, A Doll House (any edition, pref translation by Michael Meyer)

Ibsen, Henrik, The Wild Duck (any edition, pref translation by Michael Meyer)

Leffler, Ann‑Charlotte, True Women (SW)

Norén, Lars, Night is Mother of the Day (available as pdf from the teacher).

Osten, Suzanne & Lysander, Per, Medea’s Children (SW)

Strindberg, August, The Father (any edition)

Strindberg, August, Miss Julie (any edition)

Gunilla Linn‑Persson, The Dolphin (SW)

And 4‑5 additional plays.  

Sekundärlitteratur/literature:

Carlson, Marvin, “Semiotics and Its Heritage”, i Reinelt och Roach, eds., Critical Theory and Performance, University Press, Michigan, 2007, p. 13‑25 (SW)

Helander, Karin, “Theatre for Young Audiences ‑ AND for Adults”, Western European Stages: Theatre in Sweden, Vol 12, 2000, p 21‑25. (SW)

Johansson, Birgitta, ”Balancing on the Edge of Indecency”, Nordic Theatre Studies, 22: 46‑ 57, 2010. (SW)

Key, Ellen, The Century of Childhood, selected pages, digital resource (SW)

Neuhauser, Charlott, ”The Intoxication of Insight: Notes on Lars Norén”, Theatre, Fall/Winter 22:1, 1990/91, s. 89‑92 (SW)

Neuhauser, Charlott, ”New Swedish Plays. A New Genre?” i Guna Zeltina och Sanita Reinsone, eds., Text in Contemporary Theatre, The Baltics within the World Experience, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle 2013 (SW)

News from Swedish Theatre (e‑resource), focus: Young audiences (SW)

Ring, Lars, ”Lars Norén and the Swedish Theatre”, 2000, Swedish Theatre, Svensk teaterunion. (digital resource)

Rosenberg, Tiina. “We Are Still Not Being Heard: Making Black Lives Matter in Contemporary Swedish Performance.” Nordic theatre studies 33.2 (2021): 6. (SW)

Rosefelt, Paul, The Absent Father in Modern Drama, 1995 (SW)

Sörenson, Margareta, ”Swedish Drama” in Magnus Florin ed., Literature in Sweden, Svenska Institutet, 1997. (SH library)

Wirmark, Margaretha, ”Sweden” i Ralph Yarrow, ed., European Theater 1960‑1990, Crosscultural Perspectives, London: Routledge, 2015. (SW)

Swedish state cultural policy: objectives, measures, and results : a report, Libergraf 1990. (digital resource)

Additional articles will be handed out by the teacher.

Supplementary reading:

Elam, Keir, The Semiotics of Theatre and Drama, Routledge London & NY latest ed., 2002. (selected pages, SW)

Kehlily, Mary Jane, ed., Understanding Childhood: a cross‑disciplinary approach, The Policy Press, 2nd ed 2013. (SH library)

Kelly, Katherine, ed., Drama by Women 1880’s‑1930’s, Routledge, London, 1996. (SH library)

Prout, Alan. The Future of Childhood, Taylor & Francis, 2004, (SH, digital resource)

Svachova, Romana,”The Childish Unga Klara: Contemporary Swedish Children’s Theatre and Its Experimental Aesthetics”, Brünner Beiträge zur Germanistik und Nordistik 30/ 2016 / (digital resource)

Wilkinson, Lynn R. Anne Charlotte Leffler and Modernist Drama, Welsh Academic Press, 2011, pp. 147‑164. (SH library)