| Author/Contributor(s): | Strindberg, August; McGuinness, Frank |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Date: | 04/18/2002 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Frank McGuinness presents scintillating new versions of two of August Strindberg's plays -- one a major work, the other less well known.
Miss Julie is Strindberg's examination of power, sex, and class, set on a midsummer's eve in a nobleman's house and focusing on the shifting relationship between Miss Julie, the daughter of the house, and Jean, her father's manservant.
The Stronger is a short play that explores the complex range of emotions felt by Madame X when she encounters Mademoiselle Y, her husband's former mistress, at a fashionable cafe. Calling Mademoiselle Y worn out and evil, Madame X says that the triumph of her marriage proves she is the stronger of the two -- even though these words ring hollow, as she attempts to deceive only herself.