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...Ibsen, of course, is Northfield's patron literary saint. The man in the drug store or the girl who serves you dinner can tell you about him. Indeed, some friends of mine who live there entertained one night at dinner and, of course, discussed Ibsen. The Wild Duck formed a part of the discussion and one of the guests in particular expounded his idea of its meaning...
...next morning the Norwegian maid who had served the dinner informed the lady of the house that the guest was entirely in error. 'I was a maid in the Ibsen household when The Wild Duck was written, and I know all about it.' And she proceeded to tell the story...
...WILD DUCK-Ibsen's horrible jest at all his own life stood for. Wherein a young idealist scatters several lives upon the desert of despondency...
...revived Rosmersholm was dull. This dullness was possibly due to the insufficiency of Margaret Wycherly in the part of Rebecca West, and to the propaganda which was Ibsen's material. He had seen in his native land political dissension which was ripping the fabric of its history. He protested against this in a play...
...WILD DUCK?One of Henrik Ibsen's grim contributions to the world's progress. Proves that idealism is a brutal boomerang...