Miss Julie

Miss Julie (Fröken Julie)

    Alternative Title: Lady/Countess Julie/Julia

    Author: August Strindberg

    First Performance: 1889, Copenhagen

    Published: 1888

    First English Translation: 1912

    Genre: Trag. in 1 act; Swedish prose

    Setting: The kitchen of a count's home, Norway, Midsummer's Eve, 1880s

    Cast: 1m, 2f, extras

The Count's valet Jean gossips with his fiancée, the kitchen maid Kristin, about the Count's daughter Miss Julie. Having recently broken off her engagement, she is now behaving wildly at the servants' dance in the barn. She drags Jean off for another dance with him. They return to the kitchen, and, when Kristin falls asleep eventually retiring to bed, Julie flirts outrageously with Jean, who confesses that he used to yearn for her. The dancers...

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