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, 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 (10[1])trolls. (10[1])For 10 points, what epic Henrik (10[1])Ibsen play premiered (10[1])with incidental music by Edvard (10[1])Grieg? ■END■

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