“It is tempting to see Ibsen and Strindberg as inherently antithetical. On the one hand, Ibsen: sane, progressive, rational, formal. On the other, Strindberg: neurotic, reactionary, religious, fragmented. Ibsen’s characters think and speak logically and consecutively: Strindberg’s dart backwards and forwards. They do not think, or speak, ABCDE but AQBZC. ‘I see the two men as violent, necessary opposites, who between them laid the foundations of modern drama’.”