Michigan Studies in Theatre / Helsingfors, Mercators Tryckeri, 1961. 8vo. 240 pp. (incl. one blank leaf).

Sewn as issued, printed wrappers. Fine. With long inscription by the author: “Till min vän Palle Granditsky, med tack för en givande och glad sommar i Helsingfors under gästspelsdagarna 1.6–4.6 -66, tillgivne Calle”.

“Shortened edition” – actually the only edition, referring to a nonexistent dissertation.

The work was an academic scandal as many of the sources (Strindberg quotations, bibliographical and other references) were falsified, “all of them designed to provide unambiguous proof that Strindberg was well informed about the most up-to-date theories of the theatre of the period, including the work of Adolphe Appia, Otto Brahm, and Julius Bab, as well as Edward Gordon Craig and Georg Fuchs” (Robinson, An International Annotated Bibliography of Strindberg Studies 1870–2005).

(See Björn Meidal, A Strindberg Forgery: Carl Öhman's August Strindberg and the Origin of the Scenic Expressionism, in Scandinavica 34 (1995), pp. 61–69, and Björn Meidal, Ett Strindbergsfalsarium: Carl Öhmans August Strindberg and the Origin of the Scenic Expressionism, Samlaren 116 (1995), pp. 142–48.) Paul "Palle" Granditsky (1923–2001) was a Swedish actor and theatre director.

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