The Camera and the Aesthetics of Repetition: Strindberg’s Use of Space and Scenography in Miss Julie, A Dream Play, and The Ghost Sonata

The question of how that which the writer-dramatist wants to communicate is passed on to the reader-spectator as experience or knowledge was one of Strindberg’s primary concerns. In several of his plays, the actual process of passing on information and the issue of its authenticity are placed in the foreground, thus confronting us as spectators with problems that careful narratological and rhetorical analysis of fiction has taught us as readers to carefully sift and weigh for possible counterversions that are in some way embedded in the text itself.¹In this paper I investigate how the visual information, based primarily on