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Plays by August Strindberg, First Series

August Strindberg

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. . . lowering of the curtain, the stage changes to a lawyer's office, and in this manner. The gate remains, but as a wicket in the railing running clear across the stage. The gatekeeper's lodge turns into the private enclosure of the Lawyer, and it is now entirely open to the front. The linden, leafless, becomes a hat tree. The billboard is covered with legal notices and court decisions. The door with the four-leaved clover hole forms part of a document chest.

THE LAWYER, in evening dress and white necktie, is found sitting to the left, inside the gate, and in front of him stands a desk covered with papers. His appearance indicates enormous sufferings. His face is chalk-white and full of wrinkles, and its shadows have a purple effect. He is ugly, and his features seem to reflect all the crimes and vices with which he has been forced by his profession to come into contact.

Of his two clerks, one has lost an arm, the other an eye.

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Community Reviews

[Original review, 2008]

Boy meets girl, girl seduces boy, boy plans to elope with girl, boy chops girl's pet bird's head off, boy changes his mind, girl kills herself. For some reason, Hollywood have never wholeheartedly embraced this formula. I can't imagine why not.

My late grandmother-in-law was a

‎دوستانِ گرانقدر، شخصیتِ اصلی این نمایشنامه، «جولیا» نام دارد.. جولیا دخترِ بیست و پنج سالهٔ کنتِ ثروتمندیست که در منزلشان به همراه چند کارگر، «کریستین» که سِمتِ آشپزِ این خانه و کلفت را دارد و همچنین «جین» که نوکرِ این خانواده است، زندگی میکنند
‎جولیا، دلباختهٔ نوکرِ خانه یعنی جین میشود.. و تا حدی خ

Very modern in terms of how short lived a love affair between high-on-harmones youngsters was.

The modern mind rebels instantly against the extreme misogyny expressed in the preface to this play. Strindberg may be typical of his time (the play was written in 1888) but he comes across as a man without any understanding of the reality of humanity. Stating that women, who he ranks with the unedu

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Miss Julie is one of the more naturalistic pieces that I have ever seen. Throughout the piece, everything is real and truly shows a tranche de vie or ‘slice of life.’ The characters are usually treated much more as psychological personas than in realistic productions like Gho

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