August Strindberg

In Miss Julie, a willful young aristocrat, whose perverse nature has already driven her fiancé to break off their engagement, pursues and effectively seduces her father's valet during the course of a Midsummer's Eve celebration. The progress of that seduction and the play's stunning denouement shocked Swedish audiences who first attended the play in 1889. Despite its controversial debut, this now-classic drama, inspired by the new ideas of naturalism...

"Hace cien años moría en Estocolmo uno de los artistas más importantes de la literatura nórdica. A su entierro acudieron sesenta de los trescientos mil habitantes que tenía la ciudad en aquella época. August Strindberg es conocido fundamentalmente por sus obras dramáticas y por algunas de sus narraciones. También fue un pode roso poeta, como lo demuestran algunos de los poemas que incluimos en ese libro, que reúne fragmentos de muchas de...

A wealthy aristocrat and her father's valet's innocent flirtation turns into a heated and dangerous affair that tests the boundaries of class and desire.

The daughter of a rich businessman falls for her father's servant, and a battle of sexes and classes ensues. Bonus features includes interviews, video essay, and a booklet.

"These eleven one-act plays present the major figures of the modern theatre in an art form that demands from the dramatist the best he has to give in vigor and intensity. They conduct the reader on an historical tour of the modern play, from the naturalism of Strindberg to the intellectual drama of Pirandello; from the lyrical drama of Saroyan to the social drama of Tennessee Williams; from the verse of Yeats and MacLeish to the theatre of the absurd...