Love’s Comedy
play by Ibsen
Also known as: “Kjaerlighedens komedie”
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discussed in biography
- In Henrik Ibsen: First plays and directing
Kjaerlighedens komedie (1862; Love’s Comedy), a satire on romantic illusions, was violently unpopular, but it expressed an authentic theme of anti-idealism that Ibsen would soon make his own, and in Kongsemnerne (1863; The Pretenders) he dramatized the mysterious inner authority that makes a man a man, a king,…
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