Which later playwrights were influenced by August Strindberg?

August Strindberg was a pioneering Swedish playwright whose innovative work in Naturalism and later Expressionist drama left a profound mark on 20th-century theatre. His phantasmagoric plays, such as To Damascus, A Dream Play, and The Ghost Sonata, were particularly influential in the development of Expressionism in Germany after 1912.1

Playwrights who were influenced by Strindberg include:

• Sean O’Casey1
• Elmer Rice1
• Eugene O’Neill1
• Luigi Pirandello1
• Pär Lagerkvist1

Eugene O’Neill, in particular, publicly acknowledged his debt to Strindberg, whose tragic themes frequently resonate within O’Neill’s own dramatic works.2