Nietzschean Elements in Strindberg's The Dance of Death

Abstract

The article shows that the two main male characters of Strindberg's play The Dance of Death (1901) can be seen as representing what Nietzsche has called "slave morality" and "master morality".

Keywords

• August Strindberg
• The Dance of Death
• Swedish literature
• Swedish drama
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• slave morality
• master morality