AUGUST STRINDBERG: MISS JULIE (With Text)

Johan August Strindberg (1849-1912) is now seen as a pioneer of twentieth-century theatre and one of the world’s great dramatists. During his lifetime, his obssessional treatment of insanity, sexual domination and the psychological warfare between the sexes provoked extreme reactions. Miss Julie is Strindberg’ s masterpiece, written at the height of his powers as a dramatist in 1888, It treats sexuality and human struggle with a frank realism previously unknown in the theatre, and presents, with startling modernity, the conflict between sexual passion and social position. His other plays include Master Olat (1881), The Father (1887), Creditors (1888) , The Stronger (1888-89), To Damascus Parts l and II (1898), The Dance of Death Parts I & II (1890), A Dream Play (1901) and The Ghost Sonata (1907)................................................. Shakti Batra is Reader in Department of English, Dyal Singh College (University of Delhi). He has taught at the Kabul University and The International University of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek. He has also been Vice-Principal of Dyal Singh College. Now associated with Surjeet Publications, Batra has to his credit critical studies of Bernard Shaw’s Candida, Dario Fo’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Feodor, Dostoevski’s Crime and Punishment, Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Chronicle of A Death Foretold, Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts, J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing, Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Micere Githae Mugo’s The Trial of Dedan Kimathi Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Ernest, William Shakespeare’s Tempest, Wole Soyinka’s Kongi‘s Harvest, and The Lion and the Jewel, William Golding Lord of the Flies.

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