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• Bjornstjerne Bjornson

  Author:Ann SchmiesingFrom:Norwegian Writers, 1500 to 1900

  20109,690 words Biography, Critical essay Dictionary of Literary BiographyWRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR: BOOKSSynnøve Solbakken (Christiania: Johan Dahl, 1857); translated by Mary Howitt as Trust and Trial (London: Hurst & Blackett, 1858).Mellem Slagene: Drama i 1 Akt (Christiania: Dybwad,...

• Naming the helper: maternal concerns and the Queen's incorrect guesses in the Grimms' "Rumpelstiltskin"

  Author:Ann SchmiesingFrom:Marvels & Tales (Vol. 25, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 20117,830 words Critical essay Given three days to guess the name of the diminutive figure who spun straw into gold for her and now claims her child, the miller's daughter in the Grimms' "Rumpelstilzchen"--or, as known in English,...

• Bjornson and the inner plot of A Midsummer Night's Dream

  Author:Ann SchmiesingFrom:Scandinavian Studies (Vol. 74, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Winter 20026,280 words Critical essay IN JANUARY 1865, BJORNSTJERNE BJORNSON assumed the artistic directorship of the Christiania Theater, a position that he held until the summer of 1867. One of the first plays that he produced during his successful yet...

• Abdication, Accession, and the Father/King Dilemma in Lessing's Philotas and Rotrou's Venceslas

  From: Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift

  Winter 20036,131 words Critical essay [(essay date winter 2003) In the following essay, Schmiesing considers the role of abdications in Lessing's Philotas. She offers several observations on Lessing's presumed views of kingship, patriotism, and martyrdom,...

• The Christiania Theater and Norwegian Nationalism: Bjornson's defense of the 1856 Whistle Concerts in "Pibernes Program"

  Author:Ann SchmiesingFrom:Scandinavian Studies (Vol. 76, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Fall 20048,548 words Article IN MAY 1856, Bjornstjerne Bjornson organized "pipekonserter" [whistle concerts] at the Christiania Theater to protest the hiring of the Dane Ferdinand Schmidt. A former brush-maker with limited acting abilities, Schmidt...