On Midsummer’s Eve, Miss Julie, a young noblewoman enters into an illicit affair with her father’s valet, Jean. Worldly and cultured, Jean by turns spurns and encourages Miss Julie’s flirtation, eventually initiating a relationship with disastrous consequences for her.August Strindberg’s naturalistic play Miss Julie (Miss Julia) was the premiere production of the Scandinavian Naturalistic Theatre. While initially censored for content, the play has since become one...

August Strindberg's gripping psychological drama about the battle of the sexes, in a version by Mike Poulton.Strindberg's play The Father is about a marriage wrecked by the parents' need to claim exclusive rights to their daughter's love, and to determine her future. By turns comic and deeply tragic, it shows an affable, scholarly father fall victim to a once loving wife who will stop at nothing to do what she thinks is right for her child.The only possible outcom...

This file includes: There Are Crimes and Crimes, translated by Edwin Bjoerkman; Miss Julia 1888, translated by Edwin Bjoerkman; The Stronger 1889, translated by Edwin Bjoerkman; Creditors 1888, translated by Edwin Bjoerkman; Pariah 1888, translated by Edwin Bjoerkman; Comrades 1888, translated by Edith and Waerner Oland; Facing Death, translated by Edith and Waerner Oland; Easter 1900, translated by Edith and Waerner Oland; Father 1887, translated by Edith and Waerner Oland; Countess Julie...

An American critic says "Strindberg is the greatest subjectivist of all time." Certainly neither Augustine, Rousseau, nor Tolstoy have laid bare their souls to the finest fibre with more ruthless sincerity than the great Swedish realist. He fulfilled to the letter the saying of Robertson of Brighton, "Woman and God are two rocks on which a man must either anchor or be wrecked." His four autobiographical works, The Son of a Servant, The Confessions of a Fool, Inferno, and Legends, are four ...

This book was incredibly shocking at the time it was published, partly because it introduced depictions of sex. Ibsen’s play “A Doll’s House”, was at the time rightfully considered almost sacred in terms of the liberation of women, and his criticism of the play (in this book) invited a storm of fury to rain down on him. His criticisms are in the preface, and so is Strindberg’s short story response that he gave the same title, “A Doll’s House”. His criticism has sharp edges, but whatever is...

A young woman’s life is ruined when she enters into an affair with her father’s worldly and ambitious valet.Seeing the heiress as the means to acquiring the inn he one day wishes to run, Jean both encourages Julie’s affections and pushes her away before callously ending the affair when Julie’s father, a count, returns home.Be it mystery, romance, drama, comedy, politics, or history, great literature stands the test of time. ClassicJoe proudly brings literary classics to tod...

An American critic says "Strindberg is the greatest subjectivist of all time." Certainly neither Augustine, Rousseau, nor Tolstoy have laid bare their souls to the finest fibre with more ruthless sincerity than the great Swedish realist. He fulfilled to the letter the saying of Robertson of Brighton, "Woman and God are two rocks on which a man must either anchor or be wrecked." His four autobiographical works, The Son of a Servant, The Confessions of a Fool, Inferno, and Legends, are four ...

“I should like to see your blood flowing! To see your brain on the chopping block! All your sex swimming in a sea of blood!”August Strindberg was thirty-nine and living in Denmark when in 1888 he wrote his best known drama, Miss Julie, which challenges traditional class conflicts through fateful power struggles between a lustful tease Julie, and her servant, Jean, chilling performances fuelled by sex, violence, death and power.The play is set in the servan...

Young artist Adolf is deeply in love with his new wife Tekla – but a chance meeting with a suave stranger shakes his devotion to the core.Passionate, dangerously funny, and enduringly perceptive, Strindberg considered this wickedly enjoyable black comedy his masterpiece.August Strindberg's play Creditors was written in the summer of 1888, and first staged at the Dagmar Theatre in Copenhagen in March 1889.This English version by Howard Brenton was premiered ...

Ryttmästarn och pastorn i skinnsoffan. Ryttmästarn i släpuniform och ridstövlar med sporrar. Pastorn svartklädd, med vit halsduk, utan prästkragar; röker pipa.

Fans of well-honed satire will enjoy The Red Room, August Strindberg's no-holds-barred send-up of the pretensions of Swedish high society in the late nineteenth century. Earnest government worker Arvid Falk leaves his old life behind and tries to make a splash as a writer, but as he begins to spend more time with various elite and exclusive cliques, he becomes all the more disillusioned.

The second volume in the series of authoritative Methuen editions of Strindberg's Collected PlaysThis volume contains two of Strindberg's best-known plays from the years following his mental breakdown: the expressionist masterpiece A Dream Play (1901), which he described as 'my most beloved play, child of my greatest pain'; and both parts of The Dance of Death (1900), a terrifying analysis of a tormented marriage: 'it leaves an astonishing, an almost unaccountable, impression of ge...