[5]. The Stockholm Ny ill. Tidning, 1885, Nos. 14, 15, gives an interesting account of the performance, with several illustrations. Brand was played by E. Hillberg. Ibsen congratulated the Director in a letter printed by Halvorsen, u.s.
[6]. Mr. Gosse has, however, pointed out that it has points of likeness, striking rather than important, to Dobell’s dramatic poem Balder (1854).
[7]. They accepted the King’s demand that the army should be placed absolutely in his hands, but coupled the condition that he was to make war only in alliance with England or France.
[8]. First published by Brandes in his Gjennembrudtsmænd, partially quoted by Jæger, H. Ibsen (Eng. Tr. p. 155).
[9]. In Spain, conversely, the trochaic was the normal metre, the iambic a comparatively rare variation in situations of exceptional dignity.
BRAND
(1865)
PERSONS REPRESENTED.
- Brand.
- His Mother.
- Einar, a painter.
- Agnes.
- The Mayor.
- The Doctor.
- The Dean.
- The Sexton.
- The Schoolmaster.
- Gerd.
- A Peasant.
- His Young Son.
- Another Peasant.
- A Woman.
- Another Woman.
- A Clerk.
- Priests and Officials.
- Crowd: Men, Women and Children.
- The Tempter in the Desert.
- The Invisible Choir.
- A Voice.
The action takes place in our own time, at various points around a fjord-hamlet on the west coast of Norway.