Queen Tamara (play)
Queen Tamara[1] (Norwegian: Dronning Tamara) is a three-act play by Knut Hamsun about Tamar of Georgia.[2] It was published in 1903.[2]
Characters
[edit]- Tamara, Queen of Georgia
- Prince Giorgi, her husband
- Giorgi and Rusdan, their children
- The prior
- The abbot
- Fatimat, the queen's servant
- The khan of Tovin
- Zaidata
- Juanata
- Sofiat
- Mecedu
- Prince Giorgi's adjutant
- Two Tatar officers
- Two Georgian prisoners
- A hetman
- The queen's officers and soldiers, Tovin officers and soldiers, monks, scribes, musicians, dancers, girls, servants
Reception
[edit]Hamsun's play was poorly received. Reviews characterized it as uninteresting or even a failure, and Hamsun is considered to have known too little about the subject matter to convincingly develop the plot.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Žagar, Monika (2011). Knut Hamsun: The Dark Side of Literary Brilliance. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press. p. 137.
- ^ a b Oxfeldt, Elizabeth (2005). Nordic Orientalism: Paris and the Cosmopolitan Imagination, 1800–1900. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen. p. 220.
- ^ Žagar, Monika (1998). "Knut Hamsun's Taming of the Shrew? A Reading of 'Dronning Tamara'". Scandinavian Studies. 70 (3): 354–355.
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