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Comedies

Comedies( )
Author: Holberg, Ludvig
ISBN:978-1-4191-1361-1
Publication Date:Jun 2004
Publisher:Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $22.95
Book Description:

JEPPE. The best thing about brandy is that it gives you courage. Now I don't think any more about my wife or Master Eric, I've been so changed by that last glass. Do you know this song, Jacob?

Book Details
Detailed Subjects: Drama / General
Author Biography
Holberg, Ludvig (Author)
Holberg, the outstanding genius of the Danish Enlightenment, contributed in the areas of history, philosophy, and literature. His name stands by that of Moliere as a master of European comedy. In his own country, 33 comedies created a national repertoire and a theatrical tradition.

Holberg's strength in creative writing lay not in extended plot but in the individual scene, the anecdote, the characterization. Peder Paars (1719), a mock heroic poem, gave Holberg the framework in which to satirize the government, the church, and the university. The novel Niels Klim (1741) likewise reported on human foibles. Students of eighteenth-century European literature will want to seek out translations of Holberg's philosophical writing.

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