tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post4793365435372272945..comments2024-03-29T03:04:00.853-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: Jeppe of the Hill - 18th century Danish topsy-turvy landAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-8266853304051082952023-01-18T16:25:06.631-06:002023-01-18T16:25:06.631-06:00Sorry, no idea about any link to Shakespeare. I&#...Sorry, no idea about any link to Shakespeare. I'll note that Holberg is from the early 18th century, several decades before Lessing revolutionizes German drama by introducing English elements. But I don't know, really.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-72042848037072633722023-01-18T07:29:30.628-06:002023-01-18T07:29:30.628-06:00The "king-for-a-day" prank is also the f...The "king-for-a-day" prank is also the framing piece in "The Taming of the Shrew", and I read that it was already in Shakespeare's source. Later, Gerhart Hauptmann expanded Shakespeare's framing scenes into an entire piece, "Schluck und Jau". Do you know whether there are any clear links between Shakespeare's and Holberg's treatment of the material? I have no idea how popular or influential Shakespeare was in 18th century Scandinavia (he was influential in Germany during that period).Hanshttp://hanskramladen.blogspot.com/?m=1noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-9363606866708790742014-05-30T10:30:44.869-05:002014-05-30T10:30:44.869-05:00Did I mention that Holberg's plays are quite s...Did I mention that Holberg's plays are quite short? Just to encourage trying them out. Five act plays that come in under 50 pages. They move pretty fast.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-66928389188648585982014-05-30T10:09:41.460-05:002014-05-30T10:09:41.460-05:00It's embarrassing how little I know about Dani...It's embarrassing how little I know about Danish drama. Literature yes, a bit, drama no. These sound really fun. I downloaded some of them and will try them out sometime.Jeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14247515387599954817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-30867233996454623232014-05-30T08:38:54.374-05:002014-05-30T08:38:54.374-05:00I have, I tell you what, closed that lacuna. I do...I have, I tell you what, closed that lacuna. I don't know what you're taking about with magical realism and surrealists. Ibsen is a realist, we all know that.<br /><br />No, Ibsen can be really strange. That he is so strongly associated with the word "realism" is a curious accident of literary and social history.<br /><br />The Jarry connection is not off base. Holberg and Jarry are both playing around, imitating, thieving the old puppet show / Commedia dell'arte traditions. Lots of puppets violence. Jeppe, though, is actually developed into a "real" character, which is pretty good for a human puppet.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-52059556538515352292014-05-30T02:27:06.460-05:002014-05-30T02:27:06.460-05:00Ibsen is yet another embarrassing lacuna for me, T...Ibsen is yet another embarrassing lacuna for me, Tom, but I've seen both Rubén Darío and Alfonso Reyes speak highly of him in essays I've come across more or less by chance recently. Maybe his "strange bird" qualities and not the surrealists' were what led to the development of magical realism as filtered by the early Latin American modernists (and Ibsen in turn from Holberg?). Interesting post about a playwright I'd never even heard of before, by the way. I like the sound of Jeppe's scoundrel speech here as well as his wife's propensity for physical violence--seems almost <em>Ubu</em>esque in a way or at least what little I remember from my brief, unfinished dip into the Jarry waters. I'm probably way off base, though, right?Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.com