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Plays by August Strindberg, Fourth Series

August Strindberg

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .I want my doll!

GRANDFATHER. And Mats wants his. Shall he have her?

LIT-MATS. If it is Kersti, he may, for she gave me the doll.

BRITA. Listen to him!

GRANDFATHER. Let us search the Scripture. [He opens the Bible and reads] Genesis, thirty-fourth chapter and eighth verse. "And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife." Is that enough?

GRANDMOTHER. Enough and to spare!

FATHER. There wasn't anything about the mill.

MOTHER. Let His will be done!

BRITA. [Abruptly] Amen.

ANNA. Verily, it shall be done!

LIT-KAREN. I like Kersti because she's nice.

LIT-MATS. Me, too!

FATHER. Hush, hush, grandfather is thinking. [Silence.

GRANDFATHER. [To FATHER] Ask your brother-in-law to come in.

The FATHER goes to the door in the background, where he stops.

GRANDFATHER. [Goe. . . Read More

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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