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... comedy in the plays . Humour is seen as having a highly specific function in each work : " in [ Rosmersholm ] we see the great protagonists tainted by ridicule , in [ Hedda Gabler ] we see the heroine fighting back against ludicrousness ...
... comedy in the plays . Humour is seen as having a highly specific function in each work : " in [ Rosmersholm ] we see the great protagonists tainted by ridicule , in [ Hedda Gabler ] we see the heroine fighting back against ludicrousness ...
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... comedy or a drame : “ It has many of the characteristics of comedy but it also has a serious theme . " In 1898 , having witnessed a performance of The Wild Duck at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen in which the role of Hjalmar Ekdal was ...
... comedy or a drame : “ It has many of the characteristics of comedy but it also has a serious theme . " In 1898 , having witnessed a performance of The Wild Duck at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen in which the role of Hjalmar Ekdal was ...
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... comedy . Even the comedy , though , does not always function as it can in Ibsen's fully controlled tragicomic work : it can be intellectually related to the tragic themes . It is impossible not to laugh at Manders's gullibility when he ...
... comedy . Even the comedy , though , does not always function as it can in Ibsen's fully controlled tragicomic work : it can be intellectually related to the tragic themes . It is impossible not to laugh at Manders's gullibility when he ...
Contents
Journeys into Uncertainty | 23 |
The Vision Blurs | 71 |
All Hope Abandoned? | 104 |
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Aline Aline's Allmers Alving Alving's ambivalence appears Archer Åse Åse's aspects Berta Sörby Borkman Boyg Brandes Brandes's Brovik castle characters Christian claims comedy comic context critics Dead Awaken Doll's House dramatic dream Emperor and Galilean Engstrand ethical father Georg Brandes Ghosts Gina Gina's Gregers Gregers's Guthke Haakon Werle Hedda Gabler Hedvig Helene Henrik Ibsen Herdal heroic Hilde's Hjalmar human humour imagination instance interpretation ironic irony John Gabriel Borkman judgement Kaja kind Little Eyolf Logeman Lysanger Manders marriage Master Builder metaphysical mock-heroic modern mother motif nature negative never Northam Norwegian Old Ekdal Oswald Peer Gynt Peer's perhaps play play's poet poetic possible psychological Ragnar reality reference Regine Relling Relling's ridiculous Rosmersholm Rubek scene seems seen sense social Solness and Hilde Solness's Solveig soul spiritual suggests tells theory tion tragedy tragic tragicomedy tragicomic Troll King truth ultimately vision Wangel Weigand Werle's Wild Duck woman