Plays: The Father; Countess Julie; The Outlaw; The Stronger

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This collection presents some of Strindberg's most important early work, including The Father (1887) and Miss Julie (1888) — two of the most psychologically brutal plays of the nineteenth century. In The Father, a husband and wife wage a war for dominance over their daughter's upbringing that ends in the husband's destruction; in Miss Julie, a nobleman's daughter seduces her footman on Midsummer Night, with catastrophic consequences. Strindberg's misogyny is inseparable from his power: these plays show gender combat with a ferocity that anticipates O'Neill and Albee. The Stronger is a celebrated two-hander in which one character never speaks.