Miss Julie and Other Plays

Strindberg was one of the most extreme theatrical innovators of the late nineteenth century and ultimately the most influential. The five plays translated here are those on which his international reputation as a dramatist principally rests, embracing his crucial transition from Naturalism to Modernism. They include his two finest achievements as a psychological realist, The Father and Miss Julie, and three of the plays in which he redefined the possibilities of European drama following his return to the theatre in 1898. Michael Robinson's highly performable translations are based on the authoritative texts of the new edition of Strindberg's collected works in progress in Sweden, and include the Preface to Miss Julie, Strindberg's manifesto of theatrical naturalism.

(Source: Miss Julie and Other Plays blurb)