{"product_id":"2940015041798","title":"Miss Julie and Other Plays","description":"This version of Miss Julie and Other Plays includes Miss Julie, The Creditor, The Stronger Woman,  Motherly Love, Paria, and Simoon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMiss Julie (Swedish: Fröken Julie) is a naturalistic play written in 1888 by August Strindberg dealing with class, love, lust, the battle of the sexes, and the interaction among them. Set on a midsummer night of 1874, on the estate of a Count in Sweden, the young woman of the title, attempting to escape an existence cramped by social mores and have a little fun, dances at the servants' annual midsummer party, where she is drawn to a senior servant, a footman named Jean, who is particularly well-traveled, well-mannered and well-read. The action takes place in the kitchen of Miss Julie's father's manor; here Jean's fiancée, a servant named Christine, cooks and sometimes sleeps while Jean and Miss Julie talk.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe plot is primarily concerned with power in its various forms. Miss Julie has power over Jean because she is upper-class. Jean has power over Miss Julie because he is male and uninhibited by aristocratic values. The count, Miss Julie's father (an unseen character), has power over both of them since he is a nobleman, an employer, and a father.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn this night, behavior between Miss Julie and Jean which was previously a flirtatious contest for power rapidly escalates to a love relationship—or is it just lust?—that is fully consummated. Over the course of the play, Miss Julie and Jean battle for control, which swings back and forth between them until Jean convinces her that the only way to escape her predicament is to commit suicide.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCreditors (Swedish: Fordringsägare) is a naturalistic tragicomedy. It was written in Swedish during August and September 1888 in Denmark. It was first published in Danish in February 1889 and appeared in Swedish in 1890. It premièred at the Dagmar Theatre in Copenhagen in March 1889. It is seen as one of Strindberg's most powerful plays. Strindberg himself, writing in 1892, described it as his \"most mature work.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe depressed Adolf is visited by his new friend Gustav. Adolf consults with him on what to do about his wife Tekla, who toys with him all the time. He suspects her of infidelity, the way she runs about at night. What he doesn't know is that Gustav once was married to Tekla and now has come, like a creditor, to take her back. Gustav intends this to happen by making Adolf understand that he must leave Tekla.","brand":"Balefire Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47080499806448,"sku":"2940015041798","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940015041798_p0.jpg?v=1763619019","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015041798","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}