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Title: August Strindberg : the spirit of revolt : studies and impressions
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Lind-af-Hageby, L. (Lizzy), 1878-1963
Subjects: Strindberg, August, 1849-1912
Publisher: London : Stanley Paul
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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hepretty, neurotic, sensual, useless woman, blue-blooded and empty-minded, destined to totalextinction in the process of natural selection.Her tragedy is unfolded in a play of one act,which is the quintessence of Strindberg as a * Froken Julie, the Swedish name of this play, has beentranslated into English as Miss Juliet and Miss Julia.The meaning of the Swedish title and the idea of the play aremore faithfully rendered by the title Lady Julie. In the choiceof a title for his feminine type of aristocratic degeneracy,Strindberg was probably influenced by Anna Maria LenngrensFroken Juliana, a well-known satirical poem on a similarsubject which belongs to classical Swedish literature. Up tothe middle of the nineteenth century the title Froken wasexclusively used when addressing the unmarried daughters ofthe hereditary nobility of Sweden. An unmarried daughter ofa Swedish count is a countess, though she is addressed asi« Froken. Upon marriage with a commoner she may use ordrop her title.
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THE ARTIST i77 naturalistic dramatist. The scene is laidin the Counts kitchen. The Counts daughter,Lady Julie, is alone in the house with Jean,the valet, and Christine, the cook. It is St.Johns Eve; the farm hands belonging to theestate are assembled for the annual mid-summer dance. They do not dance in thekitchen, but there is midsummer madness inthe air. Christine is betrothed to Jean whotreats the products of her culinary art withepicurean disdain. He knows his value as aman and a servant. Jean is an excellentvalet, well-made, well-behaved, who knowswhen to show self-confidence and when tocringe. Lady Julie has graced the servantsdance with her presence. She has favouredJean with such marked attention that thepeople have begun to gossip. Alone with himin the kitchen she encourages him to make loveto her. The valet is uneasy ; the man is eagerto make himself master of the Counts daugh-ter, but the servant shrinks from the sacrilege.But Lady Julie taunts him with his unmanli-ness, te

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