Mr. Punch's Pocket Ibsen

F. Anstey (1856 - 1934)

These short comic parodies of five well-known tragedies by Henrik Ibsen originally appeared in Punch, the British humor magazine. From the prefatory note: "The author is conscious that his imitation is painfully lacking in the mysterious obscurity of the original, that the vein of allegorical symbolism is thinner throughout than it should be, and that the characters are not nearly so mad as persons invariably are in real lifeā€”but these are the faults inevitable to a prentice hand, and he trusts that due allowances may be made for them by the critical." LibriVox has produced full-cast versions of all five plays that F. Anstey parodies in this collection: Rosmersholm, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, The Wild Duck, and The Master Builder. - Summary by Elizabeth Klett

Genre(s): Satire

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 Rosmersholm Group 00:22:10
Play 02 Nora; or, the Bird-Cage Group 00:29:38
Play 03 Hedda Gabler Group 00:29:39
Play 04 The Wild Duck Group 00:18:50
Play 05 Pill-Doctor Herdal Group 00:33:46