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 (10[1])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 (10[1])epic Henrik Ibsen play (10[1])premiered with incidental music by Edvard Grieg? ■END■

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