Word: ibsens
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Dates: during 1889-1889
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...Monthly continues Mr. Carpenter's translation of Ibsen's "The Lady of the Sea." The third, fourth and fifth acts occupy almost the entire space of the magazine, and leave room for only a communication and a poem, besides the editorial department and The Month. It may well be doubted whether the editors are justified imdevoting so many pages to a work not original nor written by an undergraduate, even though it is of so great intrinsic merit as Mr. Carpenter's translation. This article is a great honor to its contributor and to Harvard, but it should not have...
...November number of the Monthly which appears today contains two acts of Ibsen's play "The Lady of the Sea" translated by Mr. George R. Carpenter; the last two acts to be published in the December number. This is the first English translation of this much talked of social drama. Ibsen stands today for the protest against the complicated mechanical drama so much in vogue, in place of which he gives us plays deepening for their interest on the steady development of one strong and simple the me. His work and his theory have been the subject of sharp discussion...