Round 5: Tossup 6

Along with an earlier tragedy, a translation of this play by Geoffrey Hill was published on the day of his death. In this play, a voice in the dark tells a man to “go round” as he escapes a group that lives by the maxim “to thyself be—enough!” After a madman proclaims him emperor before the Great Sphinx in Egypt, (15[1])this play’s protagonist sails home, where he looks for a list of sins to keep a (*) button moulder from melting down his soul. This play and a tragedy about the inflexible priest Brand were the last of its author’s “dramatic poems.” As a young man, the title character of this play interrupts a wedding and flees into the mountains, where he declines to give up his eyes to marry the daughter of the king of trolls. For 10 points, what epic Henrik Ibsen play premiered with incidental music (10[1])by Edvard Grieg? ■END■

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