Early Plays Catiline, the Warrior's Barrow, Olaf Liljekrans
Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906
English
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This series of SCANDINAVIAN CLASSICS was published by the
American-Scandinavian Foundation in the belief that greater
familiarity with the chief literary monuments of the North will
help Americans to a better understanding of Scandinavians, and
thus serve to stimulate their sympathetic co-operation to good
ends.
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SCANDINAVIAN CLASSICS
VOLUME XVII
EARLY PLAYS
by
HENRIK IBSEN
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EARLY PLAYS
CATILINE, THE WARRIOR'S BARROW,
OLAF LILJEKRANS
by
HENRIK IBSEN
TRANSLATED FROM THE NORWEGIAN BY
ANDERS ORBECK, A. M.
_Assistant Professor of English in the University
of Montana_
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_To
O. W. Firkins
Teacher and Friend
and Inspirer of
these Translations._
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
CATILINE
THE WARRIOR'S BARROW
OLAF LILJEKRANS
LIST OF FOUNDATION PUBLICATIONS
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INTRODUCTION
One of the most remarkable facts about Ibsen is the orderly
development of his genius. He himself repeatedly maintained that
his dramas were not mere isolated accidents. In the foreword to
the readers in the popular edition of 1898 he urges the public to
read his dramas in the same order in which he had written them,
deplores the fact that his earlier works are less known and less
understood than his later works, and insists that his writings
taken as a whole constitute an organic unity. The three of his
plays offered here for the first time in English translation will
afford those not familiar with the original Norwegian some light
on the early stages of his development.
_Catiline_, the earliest of Ibsen's plays, was written in
1849, while Ibsen was an apothecary's apprentice in Grimstad. It
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