sentences:  In 1901, August Strindberg in his play "Karl XII" broke with the heroization practice, showing an introverted Charles XII in conflict with his impoverished subjects.In the so-called Strindberg feud (1910–1912), his response to the "Swedish cult of Charles XII" (Steene) was that Charles had been "Sweden's ruin, the great offender, a ruffian, the rowdies' idol, a counterfeiter.