Peer Gynt figure quite so exuberant, outrageous, vitalistic as Peer Gynt. He merely "seems" initially to be an unlikely candidate for such eminence: "What is he", we say, "except a kind of Norwegian roaring boy?" – marvelously attractive to women, a kind of bogus poet, a narcissist, absurd self-idolator, a liar, seducer, bombastic self-deceiver. But this is paltry moralizing – all too much like the scholarly chorus that rants against Falstaff. True, Peer, unlike Falstaff, is not a great wit. But in the Yahwistic, biblical sense, Peer the scamp bears the blessing: More life. On 5 January 1867 Ibsen wrote to Frederik
Jan Eliasberg first woman to direct Michael Mann's "Crime Story," as well as "Wiseguy." Her other television directing credits include multiple episodes of Nashville, The Magicians, Blue Bloods, NCIS;Los Angeles, Parenthood, Criminal Minds, 21 Jump Street", "Dawson's Creek", "Sisters" (also a producer and writer), "Early Edition", "Party of Five", among many other notable series. She was fired from directing "How I Got into College" only five days into filming. She has directing such plays as "Spring Awakening", "Peer Gynt", "Hedda Gabler", "The Threepenny Opera", the American premiere of Howard Brenton's "Sore Throats" and "The Importance of Being Earnest". In 1991, Eliasberg married