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dramatic art.
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Dramatic Art.
The first definite traces of a native dramatic art in Sweden go back to the
16th and 17th centuries. Even before that, Moralities and Mysteries seem to
have been acted here, and then — like the school dramas later on — by
schoolboys and students, who also, at times, appeared before the court. But the plays
and ballets given at court festivals were more generally performed by foreign
actors.
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Lars Hjortzberg.
Sweden’s first professional actors were some students, who — having left the
University of Uppsala — appeared on the stage in that town in 1682 and
afterwards moved to Stockholm, where, in 1086, they began to act before the
public, from which year Swedish dramatic art may accordingly reckon its origin.
These actors continued their activity till 1691 inclusive, and it was then more
than forty years before a Swedish theatrical company again made its appearance.
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