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Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) was a Norwegian playwright who thrived during the late nineteenth century. He began his professional career at age 15 as a pharmacist’s apprentice. He would spend his free time writing plays, publishing his first work Catilina in 1850, followed by The Burial Mound that same year. He eventually earned a position as a theatre director and began producing his own material. Ibsen’s prolific catalogue is noted for depicting modern and real topics. His major titles include Brand, Peer Gynt and Hedda Gabler.
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The Feast at Solhaug by Henrik Ibsen - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) - Henrik Ibsen
The Complete Works of
HENRIK IBSEN
VOLUME 4 OF 29
The Feast at Solhaug
Parts Edition
By Delphi Classics, 2013
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‘The Feast at Solhaug’
Henrik Ibsen: Parts Edition (in 29 parts)
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HENRIK IBSEN
IN 29 VOLUMES
Parts Edition Contents
The Plays
1, Catiline
2, The Burial Mound
3, Lady Inger of Oestraat
4, The Feast at Solhaug
5, Olaf Liljekrans
6, The Vikings at Helgeland
7, Love’s Comedy
8, The Pretenders
9, Brand
10, Peer Gynt
11, The League of Youth
12, Emperor and Galilean
13, Pillars of Society
14, A Doll’s House
15, Ghosts
16, An Enemy of the People
17, The Wild Duck
18, Rosmersholm
19, The Lady from the Sea
20, Hedda Gabler
21, The Master Builder
22, Little Eyolf
23, John Gabriel Borkman
24, When We Dead Awaken
The Poems
25, The Poetry
The Norwegian Texts (De norske tekster)
26, The Original Texts
The Non-Fiction
27, Speeches and New Letters
The Criticism
28, The Criticism
The Biography
29, The Life of Henrik Ibsen by Edmund Gosse
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The Feast at Solhaug
Translated by William Archer
Written in the summer of 1855 during Ibsen’s time as a dramatist and director of productions at Det Norske Theater in Bergen, this is the playwright’s first publicly successful drama. It is a richly poetic work, celebrated for its inherent melody of the old ballads of Scandinavian lore. As Ibsen had handed in the manuscript in his own name this time, he was made responsible for directing both the roles and the staging.
The play was a great success, with the acting receiving numerous encores from the audiences during its initial run. Ibsen wrote of the premiere: Later that evening the orchestra, with many members of the audience, serenaded me outside my windows. I think I was so carried away that I made a sort of speech; at least I know I felt exceedingly happy.
In the course of 1856 the play was performed six times in Bergen and twice in Trondheim. At that time this was a large number of performances for a play. One of the performances in Bergen was given in honour of Napoleon III, Prince Napoleon, who visited the city in the late summer of 1856.
The play opens on the day of the feast celebrating the third wedding anniversary of the wedding of Bengt Guateson and Margit. Erik of Hogge, a friend of Knut Gesling, the King’s sheriff, and Knut himself are seeking permission for Knut to marry Margit’s sister, Signe. Knut, a warlike man, is advised that he must demonstrate peaceful ways for a year before Margit will support the marriage. They are invited to the feast, under pledge that they will be peaceful that night. They depart to look for Margit’s kinsman, Gudmund Alfson, who they know to be outlawed and suspect to be nearby. Once they depart and her husband leaves, Margit speaks of her regret in marrying Bengt Gauteson, even though he was a wealthy older landowner.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
THE AUTHOR’S PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
CHARACTERS
THE FEAST AT SOLHOUG
PLAY IN THREE ACTS
ACT FIRST
ACT SECOND
ACT THIRD
INTRODUCTION
Exactly a year after the production of Lady Inger of Ostrat — that is to say on the Foundation Day
of the Bergen Theatre, January 2, 1866 — The Feast at Solhoug was produced. The poet himself has written its history in full in the Preface to the second edition. The only comment that need be made upon his rejoinder to his critics has been made, with perfect fairness as it seems to me, by George Brandes in the following passage:** "No one who is unacquainted with the Scandinavian languages can fully understand the charm that the style and melody of the old ballads exercise upon the Scandinavian mind. The beautiful ballads and songs of Des Knaben Wunderhorn have perhaps had a similar power over German minds; but, as far as I am aware, no German poet has has ever succeeded