Shakespearean motifs in A. Strindberg’s play “The Father”

Doklady Bashkirskogo Universiteta. 2022. Volume 7. No. 3. pp. 161-165.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.33184/dokbsu-2022.3.5

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The article attempts to identify and analyze several Shakespearean motifs in A. Strindberg’s play “Father”. A comparative analysis of the texts has shown that the “Father” contains intertextual links with the tragedies “Othello” and “Hamlet”, the comedy “The Merchant of Venice” by W. Shakespeare; at the same time, most of the Shakespearean motifs used by Strindberg are multi-level reminiscences from “Hamlet” (“poison of doubt”, “letter of death”, the motif of a disappointed father, the motif of madness, loneliness, betrayal, female treachery and inconstancy).