Miss Julie
By: August Strindberg ; a version by David Eldridge from a literal translation by Charlotte Barslund
Contributors: Barslund, Charlotte; Strindberg, August, 1849-1912
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 52
Description: It is Midsummer in Sweden and Miss Julie, the Count's daughter, appears in the kitchen, confronting her father's valet Jean. The restless and electric exchanges between them are a snarl of seduction and contempt, their unseen sexual transgression undoing the restrictions of servility and hierarchy. Strindberg writes with disdain of a woman deformed by her belief that she is equal to man, but Miss Julie emerges as a compellingly mercurial character, tense and hysterical and tragic.