“ The production of Mäster Olof marked the beginning of the new movement in Swedish literature, and the Red Room and the collection of satirical sketches entitled Del nya riket (“The New Kingdom,” 1882) increased the growing hostility to Strindberg. Two comedies drawn from medieval subjects, Gillets hemlighet (“The Secret of the Guild,” 1880) and herr Bengt's Hustru (“Bengt's Wife,” 1882) , were followed by the legendary drama of Lycko Pers resa (“The Journal of Lucky Peter”) , written in 1882 and produced with great success on the stage a year later. ”

“ The “red room” was the meeting-place in a small cafe in Stockholm of a society of needy journalists and artists, whose failure and despair are shown off against the prosperity of a typical bourgeois couple. ”

“ He was prosecuted for assailing the dogma of the communion, but he returned to Sweden to defend himself, and was acquitted. Strindberg's mastery of the art of description is perhaps seen at its best in the novels of life in the Swedish archipelago, in Hemsobörna (“The Inhabitants of Hemso,” 1887) , one of the best existing novels of popular Swedish life, and Skärkarlslif (“Life of an Island Lad,” 1890) . Tschaudala (1889) and I hafsbandet (“In the Bond of the Sea,” 1890) show the influence of a study of Nietzsche. ”