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Title: The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings ...
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: Literature
Publisher: New York : The Fifth avenue library society
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ania University he wrote a drama, entitledCatalina, which was rejected by the theatres andpublishers, and was printed at last at the expenseof a friend, the total sales being but thirty copies.The same year he entered Christiania Universityand began writing for the daily and other peri-odicals, and he closed the year by obtaining thepresentation of a one-act play, Kjaempehofen, at theChristiania Theatre. At this period Ibsen was aRadical and a pronounced Socialist, a contributorto the famous Michael Thranes paper, and one ofa party of students who made an organized pro-test against the expulsion of another leading agi-tator from the country. Ibsen narrowly escapedimprisonment with Thrane when the latter wasarrested and his paper suppressed. Ibsen alsoafterward joined two other young Radicals infounding the weekly, Andhrimner. His Christianiacareer was cut short by the offer of the post oftheatre director and dramatic author for the thea-tre at Bergen, the second city of Norway, with a
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v^ruOJ^^V^ Kj f>o_ HENRIK IBSEN 261 trip abroad to study methods and an engagement(or live years. No doubt the poets remarkabledramatic handling is largely due to his having ac-cepted this proposal and thus having long studiedthe drama from the stand-point of the actual pres-entation. His first drama at Bergen, Sancthatisnat,was not successful and was not published. Thenext, Fru Inger til Ostraat, a play based upon thatperiod of Norways history when her ancientKings were making their last stand against thetriumphant Danish invaders, was well receivedand is still considered one of his best actingdramas. It is especially noteworthy as furnishinga female tragic part only comparable in moderntragedies to that of Lady Macbeth. Two otherdramas, based upon the almost mythical storiesof the Viking period, Gildet Paa Solhaug andHaermaendenepaa He/geland, were also successful.A short poetical drama, Olaf Liljekrans, was alsoproduced but not published. From fragments ofthis, Henrik Jaeger, Ib

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