In one letter, this playwright claimed that the problems he had with his Jewish publisher Albert Bonnier were illustrated by the character of Laura in his play The Father. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this virulently antisemitic Swedish playwright, whose misogynistic views are often thought to have inspired his play Miss Julie.
ANSWER: (Johan) August Strindberg
[10h] Strindberg’s antisemitism led a Jewish critic of this surname to stop writing to him. A Danish critic called Georg with this surname inspired Scandivania’s “Modern Breakthrough” with his lecture “Main Currents in 19th-Century Literature.”
ANSWER: Brandes (“BRAN-duhz”) [accept (Carl) Edvard (Cohen) Brandes or Georg (Morris Cohen) Brandes]
[10m] Ingmar Bergman controversially depicted the wheelchair-bound Jacob Hummel as Jewish in his adaptation of this Strindberg play, in which the student Arkenholz meets several spirits in an apartment.
ANSWER: The Ghost Sonata [or Spoksonaten]