Miss Julie [Paperback]

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.

August Strindberg's best-known and most performed play (1889): the story of a torrid affair between a manservant and his mistress.

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).