Excerpt from Shakespeariana And, indeed, his work as dramatic poet, whatever we may think of its higher merits, shows in every detail the skill that comes only from close professional study of the needs and conditions of theatrical presentation. He was, in fact, from 1851 to 1857 director of the the atre at Bergen, and from 1857 to 1861 director of the larger theatre at Christiana. And the best quality of his best work may be proved, I think, to be due to the practical knowledge thus acquired in the strug gle of his large ideas against the small means of these poorly endowed Norwegian theatres - the knowledge of the ways of realizing, at the smallest expense in scenery and decoration, the highest effects of dramatic situation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.