Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Lady Inger of Ostraat; Love's Comedy; And the League of Youth
With The League of Youth Ibsen broke entirely fresh ground. This satirical comedy was more than a tilt at conventions; it had behind it a political animus which sprang from Ibsen's distrust of the group then known as the Young Party. In this play the author for the first time found his proper medium of expression in prose dialogue of an easy naturalness that marked an astonish ing advance on anything of his day in his own country. The play was, in fact, the first modern prose comedy from Norway. In the planning and development of the plot it smacks strongly of the French drama of intrigue - the drama of the school of Scribe - but in the matters of close observation and naturalness of dialogue it is a long way ahead of that school. Ibsen was in Italy while the comedy was planned, and in Dresden while he wrote it (in the winter of 1868 - 69) and it was undoubtedly this voluntary exile that enabled him to see Norwegian social life and politics in a new perspective.
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