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Henrik Ibsen
Born in 1828, Henrik Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright and poet, often associated with the early Modernist movement in theatre. Determined to become a playwright from a young age, Ibsen began writing while working as an apprentice pharmacist to help support his family. Though his early plays were largely unsuccessful, Ibsen was able to take employment at a theatre where he worked as a writer, director, and producer. Ibsen’s first success came with Brand and Peter Gynt, and with later plays like A Doll’s House, Ghosts, and The Master Builder he became one of the most performed playwrights in the world, second only to William Shakespeare. Ibsen died in his home in Norway in 1906 at the age of 78.
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Little Eyolf by Henrik Ibsen - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) - Henrik Ibsen
The Complete Works of
HENRIK IBSEN
VOLUME 22 OF 29
Little Eyolf
Parts Edition
By Delphi Classics, 2013
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Henrik Ibsen: Parts Edition
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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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Little Eyolf
Translated by William Archer
Little Eyolf was written in 1894, while Ibsen was living in an apartment on Victoria Terrasse in Christiania. At the time Ibsen wrote: I have now begun to plan a new drama, which I intend to complete during the coming summer. I find it easy to work here, and it is very pleasant having one’s own independent home
. Ibsen made a large number of corrections and changes in the first draft, before making a fair copy, which was sent to the publisher on October 13, 1894. Little Eyolf was published by Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag in Copenhagen and Christiania on December 11, 1894 in 10,000 copies, which were extremely popular and were soon sold out. Only ten days later, on December 21st another 2,000 copies were published and a further 1,250 on January 20, 1895. The play’s reception by the Scandinavian press was almost exclusively positive.
As with Hedda Gabler and The Master Builder, the English publisher William Heinemann published Little Eyolf in a mini-edition
of 12 copies in Norwegian in London, in order to secure the copyright. This took place on the same day as the Gyldendal edition, December 11, 1894.
The first performance was at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin on January 12, 1895 and the production was directed by Otto Brahm, who had recently been appointed director of the theatre. The parts of Alfred and Rita were played by Emanuel Reicher and Agnes Sorma. The production played to full houses and received a great deal of attention, though its reception was mixed among audiences and critics.
Little Eyolf tells the story of the Allmer family. At the start of the play, the father, Alfred, has just returned from a visit to the mountains. While there, he resolved to focus foremost on raising his son Eyolf, rather than continue work on his book, Human Responsibility. Eyolf, though described as having beautiful, intelligent eyes
, is paralyzed in one of his legs and thus his life is a sheltered one. He craves more than anything else to live the life of a normal boy, but his father knows that this is not possible. As such, Alfred wants to turn Eyolf towards loftier and more intellectual pursuits.
The Deutsches Theater in Berlin, where this play was first performed
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION.
CHARACTERS
ACT FIRST
ACT SECOND
ACT THIRD
The first edition
INTRODUCTION.
Little Eyolf was written in Christiania during 1894, and published in Copenhagen on December 11 in that year. By this time Ibsen’s correspondence has become so scanty as to afford us no clue to what may be called the biographical antecedents of the play. Even of anecdotic history very little attaches to it. For only one of the characters has a definite model been suggested. Ibsen himself told his French translator, Count Prozor, that the original of the Rat-Wife was a little old woman who came to kill rats at the school where he was educated. She carried a little dog in a bag, and it was said that children had been drowned through following her.
This means that Ibsen did not himself adapt to his uses the legend so familiar to us in Browning’s Pied Piper of Hamelin, but found it ready adapted by the popular imagination of his native place, Skien. This idea,
Ibsen continued to Count Prozor, "was just what I wanted for bringing about the disappearance of Little Eyolf, in whom the infatuation [Note: The French word used by Count Prozor is infatuation.
I can think of no other rendering for it; but I do not quite know what it means as applied to Allmers and Eyolf.] and the feebleness of his father reproduced, but concentrated, exaggerated, as one often sees them in the son of such a father." Dr. Elias tells us that a well-known lady-artist, who in middle life suggested to him the figure of Lona Hessel, was in later years the model for the Rat-Wife. There is no inconsistency between these two accounts of the matter. The idea was doubtless suggested by his recollection of the rat-catcher of Skien, while traits of manner and physiognomy might be borrowed from the lady in question.
The verse quoted on pp. 52 and 53 [Transcriber’s Note: There stood the champagne,
etc., in ACT I] is the last line of a very well-known