"Three Dramas" by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson is a set of three plays from the 1800s that examines different parts of society. Each play, called "The Editor," "The Bankrupt," and "The King," uses drama to look at big ideas like honesty and what is right or wrong, when concerning newspapers, money issues, and royal power. "The Editor" starts with a family breakfast where they talk about a young politician named Harald Rejn and his hopes for the future, which causes some disagreements. The story becomes serious when a mean editor comes into the picture, and the family, especially Harald's fiancé Gertrud, worries about what people think. The play then explores family loyalty, personal sacrifice, and how people are judged in public, showing the struggles between what people believe and what society expects, and how it affects their feelings in politics and their reputation.
Three Dramas
By Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
In a world of politics, money, and power, find out how people cope when their personal beliefs clash with what society expects from them.
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About the AuthorBjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson was a Norwegian writer who received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature "as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished by both the freshness of its inspiration and the rare purity of its spirit". The first Norwegian Nobel laureate, he was a prolific polemicist and extremely influential in Norwegian public life and Scandinavian cultural debate. Bjørnson is considered to be one of the four great Norwegian writers, alongside Ibsen, Lie, and Kielland. He is also celebrated for his lyrics to the Norwegian national anthem, "Ja, vi elsker dette landet". The composer Fredrikke Waaler based a composition for voice and piano on a text by Bjørnson, as did Anna Teichmüller.
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson was a Norwegian writer who received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature "as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished by both the freshness of its inspiration and the rare purity of its spirit". The first Norwegian Nobel laureate, he was a prolific polemicist and extremely influential in Norwegian public life and Scandinavian cultural debate. Bjørnson is considered to be one of the four great Norwegian writers, alongside Ibsen, Lie, and Kielland. He is also celebrated for his lyrics to the Norwegian national anthem, "Ja, vi elsker dette landet". The composer Fredrikke Waaler based a composition for voice and piano on a text by Bjørnson, as did Anna Teichmüller.
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