Miss Julie and the Stronger: Two Plays

By August Strindberg, Frank McGuinness, August McGuinness

Book Overview

Frank McGuinness presents scintillating new versions of two of August Strindberg's plays -- one a major work, the other less well known.

Miss Julie is Strindberg's examination of power, sex, and class, set on a midsummer's eve in a nobleman's house and focusing on the shifting relationship between Miss Julie, the daughter of the house, and Jean, her father's manservant.

The Stronger is a short play that explores the complex range of emotions felt by Madame X when she encounters Mademoiselle Y, her husband's former mistress, at a fashionable cafe. Calling Mademoiselle Y worn out and evil, Madame X says that the triumph of her marriage proves she is the stronger of the two -- even though these words ring hollow, as she attempts to deceive only herself.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571205437
• ISBN13: 9780571205431
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.3" x 7.9"