Mr. Punch's Pocket Ibsen; A Collection of Some of the Master's Best-Known Dramas Condensed, Revised, and Slightly Rearranged for the Benefit of the Earnest Student

Mr. Punch's pocket Ibsen – is a collection of short comic parodies of five famous tragedies by Henrik Ibsen, which first appeared in the British comic magazine Punch. This edition was published in 1893 and written by F. Anstey (Thomas Anstey Guthrie), a British humorist writer. The final part, "Pill-Doctor Herdal," as an observant reader will immediately notice, is more of a reverent attempt to tread in the footsteps of the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen than a version of any real-life masterpiece. The author realizes that his imitation painfully lacks the magnificent, incomprehensible darkness of the original, that the vein of allegorical symbolism is everywhere thinner than it should be, and that the characters are not nearly as crazy as people invariably are in real life - but these are mistakes inevitable for "prentice hand”, And he believes critics can make the right adjustments for them. There such stories in this book as: “Rosmersholm”, “Nora; or, the Bird-Cage”, “Hedda Gabler”, “The Wild Duck” and "Pill-Doctor Herdal.”