학술논문
'An Enemy of the People': Ibsen's reluctant comedy
Document Type
Academic Journal
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Source
Comparative Drama. Summer, 1993, Vol. 27 Issue 2, p159, 17 p.
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ISSN
0010-4078
Abstract
Henrik Ibsen's play 'An Enemy of the People' was written as a comedy. It is considered a serious political drama of a lone doctor standing against a town which wants to build a health resort spa on a site with polluted water. While the story is a serious tale of social pressure, the tone which Ibsen intended was comedic. Performers interpret the doctor as a noble hero, but Ibsen wrote him with an inflated ego, and included elements of self-parody.