Per Egil Törnqvist (19 December 1932,

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– 9 March 2015,

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) was

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of Scandinavian Studies at the

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and an academic

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. Earlier (1961) he was in charge of the drama division in the comparative literature program at

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."Drama Survey", by Bolingbroke Society

/ref> From 1969 to 1997 he was professor of Scandinavian languages and literature at the University of Amsterdam. His daughter is artist Marit Törnqvist.

Books

*(1968) "Drama of Souls: Studies in O'Neill's Super-naturalistic Technique." *(1970) "Drama of Souls", , ''

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'' *(1982) "Strindbergian Drama" *(1991) "Transposing Drama Studies In Representat", *(1993) "Filmdiktaren Ingmar Bergman" *(1995) "Ibsen: A Doll's House (Plays in Production)", , ''

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'' *(1999) "Ibsen, Strindberg and the Intimate Theater: Studies in TV Presentation" *(2003) "Bergman's Muses: Aesthetic Versatility in Film, Theatre, Television and Radio" *(2004) "Strindberg's Ghost Sonata" *(2004) "Eugene O'Neill: A Playwright's Theatre" *(2008) "I Bergmans regi", Amsterdam Contributions to Scandinavian Studies, Vol. 5 *(2008) (with Birgitta Steene) "Strindberg on Drama and Theatre" *(2008) "Between Stage and Screen: Ingmar Bergman Directs", , ''

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'' *(2018) (with Erik Mattsson), ”Strindberg’s Gustav Vasa and the Performance of Swedish Identity – from Celebration to Introspective Critique”, in ''Reconsidering National Plays in Europe''. Springer International Publishing AG, 2018,

References

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