Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson, Paul Lange og Tora Parsberg [Paul Lange and Tora Parsberg]

Kathy Rees (Independent Scholar - Europe)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.3.5: Norwegian Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Kjerstin Moody (Gustavus Adolphus College), Sven Hakon Rossel (Universitat Wien), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen (University College London), Anja Tröger (University of Edinburgh)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1898

Places

Norway (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Play

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Theodore Jorgenson comments that “the play deals with the problem of a refined sensitive personality placed in a responsible public office but too tender-skinned to endure the crude attacks incident to political life” (287).

Act 1 set in an elegantly furnished drawing-room in a first-class hotel. With purposeful haste, Paul Lange, Minister of State, is writing cards which are attached to bouquets, one of blue flowers, one yellow and one white (the colours of the Swedish flag). His valet Östlie assures that they will be duly delivered. In scene 2, the Chamberlain arrives from the king and they discuss Lange’s recent decision to resign from political life (for the third time): he has been driven to it, he claims, by “party wrangling” (13). The country is in crisis, and there is a

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Citation: Rees, Kathy. "Paul Lange og Tora Parsberg". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 20 July 2017 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=38752, accessed 24 April 2024.]

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