News about August Strindberg

Christie's gives a warning in advance of a £400,000 Rembrandt etching The French Bed, which depicts a clothed couple in a moment of ferociousness, has a call to action for auction house Christie

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 6, 2023
A trigger warning has been issued for a Rembrandt etching that depicts a clothed couple in a moment of fervor - alerting potential customers of the 'explicit content.' The French bed, which is expected to sell between £250,000 and £400,000, depicts a couple in a curtained bed making love. Christie's have agreed to sell the etching, but consider that the job is so raunchy that it needs to be warned. In their online catalog, the 17th century works are out of view. The only way users can access the piece is to click on a note that reads: 'This lot contains clear ­information and mature subject matter.' Christie has been criticized for a remark.

A flashback that will have you stumped! Due to her hit television series, she has become a household name

www.dailymail.co.uk, April 28, 2023
She has had a long and varied career in Hollywood, which includes fun Eighties films as well as a huge TV show that changed the way women think about fashion and friendship. This adored blonde bombshell posted a snapshot from her past on Instagram on Thursday. And the red carpet queen took it a long time before her big in Hollywood. The beauty in question was seen with curly jet black hair and a straw hat as she gazed at the camera with a calm attitude. The image was taken from the set of a 'period drama' in the 1970s, according to the artist in her caption. Can you guess who she is?

Following Sarah Everard's assassination, a play that refers to sexual harassment was dropped from the university

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 8, 2022
Miss Julie, who was born in 1888 by August Strindberg, was'permanently suspended' by The University of Sussex as a result of student's inquiry into the possibility'psychological' and'emotional effects' of the study, which was "decidediently dismissed. In March last year, Metropolitan Police officer Wayne Couzens kidnapped, assaulted, and murdered Sarah. It comes after university professors were accused of patronising and'mollycoddling' students when over 1,000 texts were slapped with trigger warnings or were deleted from reading lists due to their 'challenging' text.

Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy reveals 'upsetting scenes.'

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 15, 2022
The University of Warwick has issued a warning far from the Madding Crowd (inset), which depicts the brutal reality of Victorian rural life. Thomas Hardy's (19th Century work (right) explores Bathsheba Everdene's loves and marriages, as well as faithful shepherd Gabriel Oak (left), Carey Mulligan and Matthias Schoenaerts appear as the characters in the book's 2015 film version). Gabriel's two hundred pregnant ewes are chased by his dog and crash to their deaths off a cliff in one scene. He kills his inexperienced sheepdog and becomes penniless after this. Four of Bathsheba's sheep died after eating a field of clover in a separate chapter. The Warwick's English Department set the alarm off the novel in the midst of scenes in which students could be 'upset by' as the story depicts the 'cruelty of nature and the rural life'.