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Love's Comedy: A Play in Three Acts
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781534889392
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 25 2016
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.28 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
Love's Comedy
A Play in Three Acts
Henrik Ibsen
Translated by C. H. Herford
Classic Drama
Love's Comedy is a comedy by Henrik Ibsen. It was first published on 31 December 1862. As a result of being branded an immoral work in the press, the Christiania Theatre would not dare to stage it at first. The play aroused a storm of hostility, Ibsen wrote in its preface three years later, more violent and more widespread than most books could boast of having evoked in a community the vast majority of whose members commonly regard matters of literature as being of small concern.
Two students - Falk and Lind - are staying at the country house of Mrs. Halm, romancing her two daughters Anna and Svanhild. Lind has ambitions to be a missionary, Falk a great poet. Falk criticises bourgeois society in his verse and insists that we live in the passionate moment. Lind's proposal of marriage to Anna is accepted, but Svanhild rejects the chance to become Falk's muse, as poetry is merely writing, and he can do that on his own and without really risking himself for his beliefs.
Falk is liberated by his words and decides to put ideas into action. When Lind is persuaded by Anna's friends not to leave as a missionary but stay in a cosy existence looking after his wife, Falk denounces the lot of them - saying that their marriages have nothing to do with love. Society is outraged and does not wish to be reminded of the split between ideal and reality. Falk is ostracized but Svanhild admires his courage. They plan to run off together and live the ideal.
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