Ibsen's Prose Dramas (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Ibsen's Prose DramasIt was during his first stay in Rome, in 1864, that Ibsen conceived and partly executed the double-drama of Emperor and Galilean (Kejser og Galiloeer). In point of origin, then, it immediately follows The Pretenders, and precedes all the modern dramas except Lover's Comedy. But the mood of indignation in which the poet had turned his back on his native country imperatively demanded utterance. The first plunge into Italy and antiquity had distracted his thoughts for a time, but they soon turned northward again. Libanius and Ammian, Gibbon and Neander, were put aside, and to the two years of intense productivity which followed, we owe the most distinctively northern of all Ibsen's works, Brand and Peer Gynt - poems of fiord and glacier, scaur and tarn. Then came The League of Youth, first of the social dramas, published in the autumn of 1869. There can be little doubt that Ibsen now conceived the idea, which he has carried out perhaps too resolutely, of devoting himself for the future to "actuality, " realism and prose. But in the war of 1870 he saw an epoch-making event, the influence of which, upon society and upon himself, could not at once be realised.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.