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        <title><![CDATA[Having run off with the bride, Ingrid, Peer has incurred a heavy fine...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Having run off with the bride, Ingrid, Peer has incurred a heavy fine from the villagers.  Because he is in hiding, it is his mother Ase who must pay this fine.  She does so, but it leaves her with nothing, and she becomes ill from destitution.  She dies, but not before Peer has an opportunity to visit her again.  Like Solveig, the farmer's daughter, she is forgiving of Peer and happy to see him before she passes.This exchange with his...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 3 Nov 2008 17:49:04 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why and how does Ase die in Ibsen's &quot;Peer Gynt&quot;?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why and how does Ase die in Ibsen's &quot;Peer Gynt&quot;?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 3 Nov 2008 16:16:06 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ibsen commissioned Grieg to write the incidental music to Peer Gynt....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Ibsen commissioned Grieg to write the incidental music to Peer Gynt. There are over 40 scene changes in the play, and so music was used to fill the gaps between scenes. It also helps in the characterisation and conveys the mood of the scene more profoundly than words. The two orchestral suites were compiled by Grieg some years after the first productions. Another reason why Ibsen might have wanted to include music is that his audiences would...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 7 Apr 2008 12:08:12 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Here is a little more information on how the music became connected to...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Here is a little more information on how the music became connected to Ibsen's play:&quot;The Peer Gynt Suite was first composed by famed Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) in the year 1876. All eight songs are an effort to put a musical interpretation to Henrik Ibsen's&nbsp;play by the same name, which was written about a decade earlier in 1867. The play is approximately 5 Acts (dependent on which version you follow) and spans from...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 08:47:07 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Many plays have music associated with them. Sometimes previously...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Many plays have music associated with them. Sometimes previously existing musical pieces are re-used, but in many cases, new works are written to accompany theatrical productions, just as musical sound tracks are used with movies today.&nbsp;Edvard Grieg was a composer, and was hired to write the music to accompany Peer Gynt. (Ibsen asked him to write it.)]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 08:29:41 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How did music become connected to Peer Gynt?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How did music become connected to Peer Gynt?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 06:16:44 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It seems he mainly wrote it in order to explore Scandinavian myths of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It seems he mainly wrote it in order to explore Scandinavian myths of old, and to create a beautiful fantasy to be read. From the eNotes introduction:

Henrik Ibsen wrote Peer Gynt in 1867. He never intended that the work be performed on stage; instead, Ibsen envisioned his work as a poetic fantasy to be read. However, Peer Gynt quickly became recognized as a masterwork of Scandinavian literature, and in 1876, Ibsen adapted his work for the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:19:43 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why did Henrik Ibsen write Peer Gynt?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why did Henrik Ibsen write Peer Gynt?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:08:48 PST</pubDate>
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