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Advantages: Mostly characterization? plus the play is short and makes a good read Disadvantages: A little painful like all tragedies
Miss Julie OR Countess Julie (1888)
A tragedy in one act
By
August Strindberg (1849 - 1912)
Like any other "classic" tragedy, August Strindberg's Miss Julie represents the fall of its heroine; she is a beautiful and rich twenty-five year old woman who committed the terrible sin of having sex with her servant. Well, things are a little more complicated than this, so let's examine her character. Julie's parents collaborated in preventing her from owning a clear gender; her mother wasn't of noble birth, she believed in equality and freedom, was dominant and taught her daughter, Julie, everything that a boy should know. Her father's subservience to his wife and subsequent incident he was fooled in, caused the little girl to hate men from some time, and then even when she found out the truth, she never managed to have a clear idea ...
Advantages: Interesting read Disadvantages: Nothing about her recent times
That's Another Story is the autobiography which has been written by Julie Walters. Julie was born in 1950 in Smethwick in Birmingham. She had a happy childhood and starts to book by telling us about growing up and all about her family. Julie talk a lot about life at home with her parents and what it was like when her Grandmother came to live with them. She feels that she learnt a lot from her Grandmother and that is why she is so good at playing the old lady parts.
As she grew up she found she did not do too well at school and was shocked when she got accepted into a girls school. She found her place as the class comedian and this is how she passed her time at school. She later found she had no interest in further education like her brothers had go on to do. After leaving school she decided she would try and get herself a job but she ...
The book, Lascivious Bodies, a sexual history of the eighteenth century, by Julie Peakman PhD, is an extremely well-researched and well-written book.
It relates the history of the astounding sexual revolution that took place in the 18th century.
Peakman draws upon contemporary official records, diaries and letters from the time, all which provide the reader with fascinating and somewhat shocking glimpses into the sexual lives of the rich, the famous and the ordinary people of the 18th century.
For those of us whose ideas and views of how people in the past viewed sexual matters, the book comes as a surprise. However, it must be remembered that this view is usually based upon the far more prudish and restricted Victorian era. But Peakman's book raises the suggestion that the morally repressed and repressive Victorian attitude ...
