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Three Dramas

Three Dramas

Sharp, Robert Farquharson
Bjornson, Bjornstjerne

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN10: 1547057114
ISBN13: 9781547057115
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 6 2017
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
The King (Kongen) was written at Aulestad, the Norwegian home in which Björnson settled after his return from abroad, and was published at Copenhagen in 1877. It is perhaps not surprising that the play, with its curious blend of poetry and social philosophy, and its somewhat exuberant (though always interesting) wordiness, was not at first a conspicuous success on the stage; but the interest aroused by the published book was enormous. It was widely read and vigorously discussed, both in Scandinavia and abroad; and while, on the one hand, it brought upon Björnson the most scurrilous abuse and the harshest criticism from his political opponents, on the other hand a prominent compatriot of his (whose opinion was worth having) gave it as his verdict, at a political meeting held soon after the play's publication, that the most notable thing that has happened in Norway of late-or at any rate, one of the most notable-in my opinion is this last book of Björnson's-The King.

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