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Seven One-Act Plays by Holberg
By (Author) Ludvig Holberg
Edited and translated by Henry Alexander
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: plays and playwrights
839.812
Hardback
214
Width 140mm, Height 216mm
397g
These short plays by the great Danish-Norwegian playwright Ludvig Holberg reveal, in brilliant and sparking miniature, his genius for comedy. The plays are here translated into English for the first time, with an introduction by Svend Kragh-Jacobsen, well-known Danish theater critic. In these social comedies Holberg pricks the vanity of snobbery an