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Love's Comedy

Henrik Ibsen

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deep mirror sleeping,
The roguish elf about her lips a-peeping,
It is there.

SVANHILD.
             What? You frighten me.

FALK.
                                     Your name
Is Svanhild?

SVANHILD.
             Yes, you know it very well.

FALK.
But do you know the name is laughable?
I beg you to discard it from to-night!

SVANHILD.
That would be far beyond a daughter's right—

FALK [laughing].
Hm. "Svanhild! Svanhild!"
                      [With sudden gravity.
                With your earliest breath
How came you by this prophecy of death?

SVANHILD.
Is it so grim?

FALK.
            No, lovely as a song,
But for our age too great and stern and strong,
How can a modern demoiselle fill out
The ideal that heroic name expresses?
No, no, discard it with your outworn dresses.

SVANHILD.
You mean the mythical princess, no doubt—

FALK.
Who, guiltless, died beneath the horse's feet.

SVANHILD.
But now such acts are clearly obsolete.
No, no, I'll mount his saddle! There's my place!
How often have I dreamt, in pensive ease,
He bore me, buoyant, through the world apace,
His mane a flag of freedom in the breeze!

FALK.
Yes, the old tale. In "pensive ease" no mortal
Is stopped by thwarting bar or cullis'd portal;
Fearless we cleave the ether without bound;
In practice, tho', we shrewdly hug the ground;
For all love life and, having choice, will choose it;

Bruce 09/10/2019
Reading Love's Comedy is like listening to an energetic musical, but the storyline is too serious! The title seems to be a satirical comment on love. It removes the romance and replaces it with the practical. I must reread this play.
Matthew 07/06/2014
It is remarkable to think that if Ibsen had died after Love's Comedy, his eighth play, he would have died without leaving the world a masterpiece, and most countries would not have heard of him.

However, while Love's Comedy is not yet the breakthrough masterpiece, it is Ibsen's best work to date, and

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