''Mellem Slagene'' (''Between the Battles'',
also translated in 1941 as ''Between the Acts''
) is a one-act historical play from 1857 by
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson ( , ; 8 December 1832 – 26 April 1910) was a Norwegian writer who received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature "as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguishe ...
.
The work was published the same year as his best-known work, the peasant novel ''
Synnøve Solbakken''.
The play was first staged at the
Christiania Theater
Hotel Christiania Teater – is a historic Oslo city hotel and landmark built in 1918, known primarily for the notability of its theater inside the hotel and recently its unique hotel design by Annemone Wille Waage. The 102-unit hotel is locate ...
on October 27, 1857. The work was well-received by the critics, and it is still included in the school curriculum to this day.
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Norwegian plays
1857 plays
1857 books