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Poet Robert Bly, Shakespearean actor Mark Rylance team to return Ibsen's anti-hero to stage

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From: AP Worldstream
Date: 20080118
Author:PATRICK CONDON

Henrik Ibsen's "Peer Gynt," an epic in verse that spans the decades and the globe, and features trolls, a devil and a mysterious stranger in its sprawling cast, seems worlds away from the somber domestic dramas for which the Norwegian playwright is best known.

But poet Robert Bly, whose lifelong fondness for Ibsen was fostered by their shared Norwegian lineage, thinks "Peer Gynt" has been unfairly neglected. "This play really shows the genius of Ibsen," Bly says. "The others show his intelligence."

Bly, best known for his best seller, ...

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