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Mr Punch's Pocket Ibsen - A Collection of Some of the Master's Best Known Dramas

By Henrik Ibsen

2020-06-01 16:16:09

The concluding piece, "Pill-Doctor Herdal," is, as the observant reader will instantly perceive, rather a reverent attempt to tread in the footprints of the Norwegian dramatist, than a version of any actually existing masterpiece. The author is consc ... Read more
The concluding piece, "Pill-Doctor Herdal," is, as the observant reader will instantly perceive, rather a reverent attempt to tread in the footprints of the Norwegian dramatist, than a version of any actually existing masterpiece. The author is conscious that his imitation is painfully lacking in the mysterious obscurity of the original, that the vein of allegorical symbolism is thinner throughout than it should be, and that the characters are not nearly so mad as persons invariably are in real life—but these are the faults inevitable to a prentice hand, and he trusts that due allowances may be made for them by the critical. Less

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File size454.606 KB
Print pages246
PublisherPublic Domain Book
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1356959716
Born: 20 March 1828, Skien Municipality, Norway Died: 23 May 1906, Oslo, Norway Henrik Johan Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. As one of the founders of modernism in th...

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