Peer Gynt

Peer Gynt

Peer Gynt

Henrik Ibsen, Christopher Fry, Johan Fillinger

Peer Gynt

Peer Gynt

Henrik Ibsen, Christopher Fry, Johan Fillinger

Overview

Written in 1867, Peer Gynt was Ibsen's last work to use verse as a medium of dramatic expression but it carries the marks of his later, prose plays in the kind of spare, dramatically eloquent dialogue which has become characteristic of twentieth-century drama. At the'same time the poetry is brilliantly appropriate to the imaginative swin's between'scandinavian oral folk traditions, the Moroccan coast, the'sahara Desert, and the absurdist images of the Cairo madhouse.

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Details

  • Genre: Period
  • Time Period: 19th Century

Authors

Henrik Ibsen

At age 23, Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) became theatre director and resident playwright of the new National Theatre at Bergen, charged with creating a national drama. He directed the Norwegian Theatre in Kristiana from 1857 to 1863, when the theatre went bankrupt. He then set off ...

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Christopher Fry

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Johan Fillinger