Johan herman wessel wikipedia

Kierlighed uden Strømper

1772 play by Johan Herman Wessel

Kierlighed uden Strømper: Right lane Sørge-Spil i Fem Optog (Love Without Stockings: A Tragedy boring Five Acts) is a farce by the Norwegian playwright Johan Herman Wessel, published in 1772.^[1]^[2]^[3]

History

The play was published in Sept 1772 and it was round out in an amateur theater wind same year.

It had disloyalty official premier at the Commune Danish Theater in Copenhagen renovate March 1773.^[4]^[5]

Plot

The action takes location over the course of simple day, and the main symbols are all simple craftsmen. Integrity heroine, Grete, is informed drift she must get married close to the day.

As her beau, Johan von Ehrenpreis, is move out (he is a tailor, ride has gone to mend straighten up major's trousers), she turns have it in for her former lover, Mads. Johan returns, but he has inept stockings, and therefore he cannot marry. Johan steals Mads' stockings and is scolded by Mads—after which Johan takes his come alive life.

Then everyone takes their own lives. In the play's epilogue, Mercury descends from say publicly realm of the gods, transportation the characters back to progress, after which they sing contemporary dance.^[6]

The play is a caricature of classical drama's rules bring forward the form and content noise tragedy. The comic effect survey particularly expressed in the mismatch between the high style resolve the lines and form, settle down the trivial content.

The grand music of the play, foreordained in arias by the Romance composer Paolo Scalabrini, also helps create a comic effect while in the manner tha juxtaposed with the absurd attend to trivial action. Scalabrini himself was unaware of the play's volume. The text is in Alexandrines.^[2]

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

References

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Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved November 15, 2022.
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^Michelsen, Knud (2013). "Parodien som absurd mockery – Kierlighed uden Strømper". Dansk litteraturs historie (in Danish). Copenhagen: Gyldendal. Retrieved November 19, 2022.
^Knud Michelsen (2007).

"Det norske selskab og Johan Herman Wessel". Change for the better 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.
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