Miss Julie

Miss: I will leave, if you accompany me! Jan: Are you crazy, woman? Miss Julie runs away with her servant! That is what the newspapers will write the day after tomorrow, and the count will never escape it! Miss: I cannot leave! I cannot stay! Help me! I am tired, exhausted beyond measure—order me! Make me move, for I can no longer think, nor do anything…! Jan: Do you see, Miss, what trash you are? Why boast and show arrogance as if you were the gods of creation? Well: I will command you! Get in and change your clothes, and take money for the journey and come back down here!***Johan August Strindberg (1849 - 1912): Playwright, novelist, poet, painter, translator, journalist, photographer. The most famous and important Swedish writers, and his counterpart to Shakespeare in influence and impact. Miss Julie: His most famous play of all, and considered his most important theatrical work embodying the ideas of the natural school in thought and art. It has been performed, and still is, countless times in most living languages, with different interpretive visions and suggestions, not only in theater but also as films, opera and ballet performances, and television dramas around the world. It has previously been translated into Arabic, but here it comes with a translation directly from Swedish into English, in the first edition of its original text, not from a third language, including Strindberg’s famous preface to the play, which was regarded as his literary statement.