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Plays by August Strindberg, Third Series

August Strindberg

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. . .y gestures she indicates that her hair has been combed. Then she rises, goes a little distance away from the table, and turns around with a bashful expression to hold out one of her feet. In that attitude she stays for a moment while waiting for an answer. On hearing it she becomes embarrassed and hides her foot quickly under her dress.

She goes to the chest and takes out the chess-board and the chess-men, which she places on the lions skin with a gesture of invitation. Then she lies down beside the board, arranges the men, and begins to play with an invisible partner.

The harp is silent for a moment before it starts a new melody.

The game of chess ends and SWANWHITE seems to be talking with her invisible partner. Suddenly she moves away as if he were coming too close to her. With a deprecating gesture she leaps lightly to her feet. Then she gazes long and reproachfully at him. At last she snatches up the white garment and hides herself behind. . . 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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