Fru Inger til Østråt
by Henrik Ibsen
Norwegian • Public Domain • Free to stream
Lady Inger schemes for Norwegian freedom against Danish rule. Ibsen's political drama set in 1528 — intrigue, sacrifice and the price of patriotism.
About the book: Fru Inger til Østråt
Lady Inger (original title: Fru Inger til Østeraad) is an 1854 play by Henrik Ibsen, inspired by the life of Inger, Lady of Austraat. The play is the fourth work of the Norwegian's career and reflects the birth of Romantic Nationalism in the Norway of that period. Its initial sentiments were so strongly anti-Danish that Ibsen ultimately toned them down.
The play centers on the Scandinavia of 1510 to 1540 as the Kalmar Union collapsed, the impacts of the Reformation were becoming evident in Norway, and a last desperate struggle was being mounted to maintain Norwegian independence. Subsequent research has shown the play deviates rather liberally from the actual historical events, and it should be understood in its context as a statement of nationalism.
Ibsen was a major participant in a flood of nationalistic romanticism that followed the period of the Scandinavian Union and the subsequent Dano-Norwegian union from 1387 to 1814, which Ibsen characterised as "Four Hundred Years of Darkness." He is recognised as one of the so-called "The Four Greats" of this period.
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