Queen Tamara (play)

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Queen Tamar of Georgia

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]

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Reception

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

  1. ↑ Žagar, Monika (2011). Knut Hamsun: The Dark Side of Literary Brilliance. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press. p. 137.
  2. 1 2 Oxfeldt, Elizabeth (2005). Nordic Orientalism: Paris and the Cosmopolitan Imagination, 1800–1900. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen. p. 220.
  3. ↑ 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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