Miss Julie

August Strindberg · 1888 CE · Play · Nordic · Victorian

On midsummer night in a Swedish count's kitchen, his daughter dances with the servants and stays behind with Jean, her father's valet, who has ambitions and a fiancée in the room. Across one night of drink, flattery and calculation the two trade positions by degrees, class and sex changing hands between them. Naturalism at its coldest.

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responds to ↑ A Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen · 1879 CE · Play
influenced by ↑ The Father
August Strindberg · 1887 CE · Play
↓ Long Day's Journey into Night
Eugene O'Neill · 1956 CE · Play — influenced by this
↓ Creditors
August Strindberg · 1889 CE · Play — companion to this

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