Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754) is to Danish theatre what Shakespeare Molière and Strindberg are to
their national stages - and the world stage. During his lifetime Holberg was a major figure in
European literature and thought. In the Nordic region his work forms the backdrop to writers
such as Søren Kierkegaard Hans Christian Andersen Henrik Ibsen and Karen Blixen. This second
volume in a series of ne w translations presents two of Holberg's witty plays about playing
roles in life and in the theatre and his satire about the man-made setting in which the roles
live: his 'feminist' defence of women's equal right to education and employment. With
introductions and brief notes.
