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Questions about the play "Miss Julie" ("Fröken Julie") by August Strindberg. Should be used with the tags [august-strindberg] and [scandinavian-languages].

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Why did August Strindberg pick the names "Julie" and "Jean" for the protagonists of his play Miss Julie (1888)?

In Miss Julie (Fröken Julie), a seminal play and central piece of modern Swedish literature, the two main characters are named "Julie" and "Jean". Why "Julie" and "...
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