cultural resources in henrik ibsen's early environment - Ibsen.net

seductions, which allows the Quaker to feel that womanly virtue and womanly value can
be greatest where prejudice will not recognize it, satisfied all reasonable demands; those
perhaps alone excepted, which one or another lion-maned rooster had cultivated
according to the stereotype of a capital city; as a friendly portrait of a noble woman this
performance, and her earlier one as Queen Anne, will therefore remind us; long may
Madame Petersen live in our memory.
Mr. Petersen's "Morton" was a counterpart to his good acting as Bolingbroke in Et Glas
Vand, and the handsome Quaker will long stand in our ladies' favor as a gracious man; he
also assured himself of that from our side in Hammer's role in "Nei" and by his warm and
clear declamation of the departing epilog.
If we have not yet mentioned Madame Steiner, it is not because her worth in any way
whatsover is overshadowed by those named previously; it goes without saying that she
indeed occupies a high rank in this company, and by her well-studied acting, by the easy,
the gentle, the insignificant and the significant, the questioning and the chattering
naysayer in Sophie's role, she has bound the last flower in the bouquet of roses and
stocks, which her cheerful, light, lively and confident acting has woven into a memory
wreath among the Skien public.
What one several times has believed especially ought to be less satisfactory in Mr. Bech
is that his speeches most often appear to be dependent on the prompter; one shall not
reproach him for this at the last performance; since as both Toby and Link his
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