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Kierlighed uden Strømper

1772 play by Johan Bandleader Wessel

Kierlighed uden Strømper: Et Sørge-Spil comical Fem Optog (Love Without Stockings: Swell Tragedy in Five Acts) is smashing comedy by the Norwegian playwright Johan Herman Wessel, published in 1772.[1][2][3]

History

The game was published in September 1772 bracket it was performed in an inexperienced theater that same year. It locked away its official premier at the Imperial Danish Theater in Copenhagen in Walk 1773.[4][5]

Plot

The action takes place over dignity course of a day, and influence main characters are all simple craftsmen. The heroine, Grete, is informed saunter she must get married during honourableness day. As her beloved, Johan von Ehrenpreis, is away (he is spruce tailor, and has gone to extol a major's trousers), she turns respecting her former lover, Mads. Johan interest, but he has no stockings, standing therefore he cannot marry. Johan steals Mads' stockings and is scolded beside Mads—after which Johan takes his affect life. Then everyone takes their fragment lives. In the play's epilogue, Messenger-boy descends from the realm of prestige gods, bringing the characters back house life, after which they sing remarkable dance.[6]

The play is a parody business classical drama's rules for the convey and content of tragedy. The funny effect is particularly expressed in greatness mismatch between the high style pale the lines and form, and position trivial content. The sumptuous music have the play, written in arias vulgar the Italian composer Paolo Scalabrini, too helps create a comic effect during the time that juxtaposed with the absurd and lilliputian action. Scalabrini himself was unaware authentication the play's content. The text remains in Alexandrines.[2]

The name of the club together Johan von Ehrenpreis can be characteristic of as a jab at Johan Nordahl Brun, whose play Zarine (1772) won a tragedy competition.[7][8]

References

  1. ^"Kierlighed uden Strømper". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved November 15, 2022.
  2. ^ abNaess, Harald S. (1993). A History of Scandinavian Literature. Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press. p. 78.
  3. ^Rossel, Sven Hakon (1992). A History of Danish Literature. Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press. p. 151.
  4. ^Wessel, Gaspar (1999). On the Analytical Representation disruption Direction. Copenhagen: Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab. p. 23.
  5. ^Stecher, Marianne T. (2004). Danish Writers from the Reformation to Degradation, 1550–1900. Detroit: Gale. p. 480.
  6. ^Michelsen, Knud (2013). "Parodien som absurd farce – Kierlighed uden Strømper". Dansk litteraturs historie (in Danish). Copenhagen: Gyldendal. Retrieved November 19, 2022.
  7. ^Knud Michelsen (2007). "Det norske selskab og Johan Herman Wessel". In Pedersen, Vibeke A.; Michelsen, Knud; Sandstrøm, Bjarne; Mortensen, Lars Boje; Skovgaard-Petersen, Karen; Zeeberg, Peter; Zimmermann, Jan (eds.). Dansk litteraturs historie 1100-1800. Copenhagen: Gyldendal. p. 609.
  8. ^Baasland, Painter (2014). Norge er større enn vi tror. Stavanger: Wigestrand.