Leseprobe_Holm_Holberg Plays Volume I

The translation project is grateful for funding from:
Danish Arts Foundation
Ingeniør Kaptajn Aage Nielsens Familiefond
Konsul George Jorck og Hustru Emma Jorck’s Fond
Soransk Samfund
With thanks to:
Actors from Why Not Theatre Company, Denmark:
Sue Hansen-Styles, Andrew Jeffers, Kevin Kiernan-Molloy, Sira Stampe
Det Danske Sprog- og Litteraturselskab
(Society for Danish Language and Literature)
Hans-Peter Kellner
Frontcover image, details from: Benoit Le Coffre, A Masquerade, Frederiksberg Palace, 1704
Ludvig Holberg: Plays, Volume I, Just Justesen’s Reflections on Theatre, Jeppe of The Hill,
Ulysses von Ithacia. Edited and translated from the Danish by Bent Holm and Gaye Kynoch
Wien: HOLLITZER VERLAG, 2020
Just Justesen’s Reflections on Theatre (Just Justesens betænkning over komedier), Jeppe of The Hill
(Jeppe på Bjerget), and Ulysses von Ithacia have been translated from the Danish versions published
by Ludvig Holbergs Skrifter (The Writings of Ludvig Holberg) at:
Ludvig Holbergs Skrifter http://holbergsskrifter.dk
Layout: Nikola Stevanović
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