Miss Julie

by August Strindberg

Overview

August Strindberg's best-known and most performed play (1889): the story of a torrid affair between a manservant and his mistress. This edition contains Strindberg's influential Preface, in which he analyses his own play and sets out his ideas about how it should be staged.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781854592057
Publisher:	Theatre Communications Group
Publication date:	01/01/1996
Series:	Drama Classics
Edition description:	New
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	4.00(w) x 6.30(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

August Strindberg (1849-1912) is best-known for his misogyny and as the author of Miss Julie (1889). His first success came as a novelist and autobiographer. His plays (and he wrote over sixty) were deeply controversial in their time and still are to some extent. They range form bold naturalism (e.g. The father, 1887) to an entralling expressionism (e.g. The Ghost Sonata, 1907).

Editorial Reviews

Very accessible and 'fresh' translations, which will be valuable additions to American theatre.

Interactive Theatre Newsletter - Jeff Wirth

Direct, accessible and strangely contemporary, [this adaptation of] Miss Julie is a … blast of dramatic fresh air which retains its provocative power.”
— Halifax Chronicle Herald

From the Publisher

Very accessible and 'fresh' translations, which will be valuable additions to American theatre.
— Jeff Wirth, Editor

Interactive Theatre Newsletter