Three Comedies

Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson (8. December 1832 - 26. April 1910) was a Norwegian writer who received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature "as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished by both the freshness of its inspiration and the rare purity of its spirit", becoming the first Norwegian Nobel laureate.

With "The Newly Married Couple" (1865), virtually a "proverb" in Alfred de Musset's style, Bjørnson created the first bourgeois proble...