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Miss Julie
Jo Taylor
Miss Julie
by August Strindberg
Highlights
Synopsis
In Miss Julie, a willful young aristocrat, whose perverse nature has already driven her fiancé to break off their engagement, pursues and effectively seduces her father's valet during the course of a Midsummer's Eve celebration.
The progress of that seduction and the play's stunning denouement shocked Swedish audiences who first attended the play in 1889.
Despite its controversial debut, this now-classic drama, inspired by the new ideas of naturalism and psychology that swept Europe in the late 19th century, helped to shape modern theater, and remains one of the most potent-and most frequently performed-of modern plays.
The full text of Miss Julie is reprinted here as translated by Edwin Björkman, complete with Strindberg's critical preface to the play, considered by many to be one of the most important manifestos in theater history.
Publication
Publisher Dover Publications
Year 1992
Binding Paperback
Edition Revised ed.
Pages 64
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780486272818
ISBN-10 0486272818
eISBN-13 9780486111971
LCCN 92015845
LCC PT9812.F81 E5 1992
DCC 839.72/6
Miss Julie is a Scandinavian play written by August Strindberg and published by Dover Publications in New York (1992).
Digital editions available on Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, Google Play (eISBN 9780486111971).
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