{"product_id":"2940157497040","title":"August Strindberg Miss Julie","description":"\"I should like to see your blood flowing! To see your brain on the chopping block! All your sex swimming in a sea of blood!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAugust Strindberg was thirty-nine and living in Denmark when in 1888 he wrote his best known drama, Miss Julie, which challenges traditional class conflicts through fateful power struggles between a lustful tease Julie, and her servant, Jean, chilling performances fuelled by sex, violence, death and power. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe play is set in the servants' quarters of a regal manor house during the 1880s, the backdrop to a dark psychological drama that sees a young aristocratic man-hating woman driven to satisfy her uncontrollable sensuality by abandoning herself to her father's valet.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the psychosexual struggle develops between them, Miss Julie loses control and becomes submissive to her calculating servant. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJulie must face the fact that Jean is the stronger person.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInitially banned in Sweden, time has allowed Miss Julie to mellow from an enigmatic attempt to look at the social issues of women's place in the changing social order, into a timeless modern tragedy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnce Jean and Julie have seduced each other, their lives are irretrievably changed; the aristocrat becomes the slave of the valet--and the valet becomes the aristocrat as Julie lowers herself beyond redemption.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAUGUST STRINDBERG (1849–1912) was a prolific Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter whose career spanned four decades, during which time he wrote over 60 plays and more than 30 works of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics. A bold experimenter, he explored a wide range of dramatic methods and purposes. Many of his theatrical innovations have influenced such writers as Tennessee Williams, Eugene Ionesco and Harold Pinter. He is considered the \"father\" of modern Swedish literature.","brand":"Editions Artisan Devereaux, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47173679186160,"sku":"2940157497040","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940157497040_p0.jpg?v=1764096329","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940157497040","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}