History Theatre / LadyIngerAtAustraat

* ChewToy: Lady Inger. And it goes FromBadToWorse for her.

* HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct: Ibsen made some amendments on factual history in this play (for the RuleOfDrama), but he didn`t alter the fact that Denmark gets the upper hand through the gambits of Niels Lykke. Norway ended up as a Danish province. Period.

* MeaningfulName: Niels Lykke. His last namne means "luck", and he seems to benefit from sheer accident a couple of times, and exploits it to win his gambit. Swedish nobleman Jens Bjelke even lampshades this, by thinking he was BornLucky.

IGaveMyWord: Referred to in-play. The entire Norwegian elite, including Inger, then 15 years of age, swore vengeance after the murder of Knut Alvsson. This promise is driving all of Inger`s actions, and makes her life a living hell. She adamantly warns her daughter from giving a similar promise.

* TheMole: Lady Inger`s preferred role in the political mess-up being Scandinavia at the time. Niels Lykke seemingly is.

** They did get married in the end, though.

* IGaveMyWord: Referred to in-play. The entire Norwegian elite, including Inger, then 15 years of age, swore vengeance after the murder of Knut Alvsson. This promise is driving all of Inger`s actions, and makes her life a living hell. She adamantly warns her daughter from giving a similar promise.

* TheMole: Lady Inger`s preferred role in the political mess-up being Scandinavia at the time.

* MistakenIdentity: Nils does not know he is the son of Sten Sture. Inger thinks he is Sten`s other son (who is dead at this point). The only one to know the truth is Niels Lykke, who stumbled on the fact by sheer coincidence.

** {{TruthInTelevision}}: All of Knut`s properties were handed over to the Dane who was responsible for his death. In play, this is extended to other Norwegians who opposed Denmark, like Olaf Skaktavl. The trial after the murder was a sham, as the Danish were freed of all charges, although the law of safe conduct was thoroughly broken.
* {{TheWomanizer}}: Niels Lykke is ''notoriously known'' for this, even in Sweden.

* {{Womanizer}}: Niels Lykke is ''notoriously known'' for this, even in Sweden.

* IGaveMyWord: Referred to in-play. The entire Norwegian elite, including Inger, then 15 years of age, swore vengeance after the murder of Knut Alvsson. This promise is driving all of Inger`s actions, and makes her life a living hell. She adamantly warns her daughter from giving a similar promise.

* ChekhovsGunman: The Swedish noble, wary of Norwegian support for the Swedish rebellion, puts troops in place along the highway. Those soldiers are responsible for the massacre of Nils Stensson`s men later on.

* TheChessmaster: Niels Lykke, the Danish noble. Lady Inger herself. She obviously tries to out-chess Niels.

* GambitPileup: The play is a straight example, with Lady Inger and Niels Lykke trying to outgambit eachother, setting lives, properties and ''an entire nation'' at stake.

* IGaveMyWord: Referred to in-play. The entire Norwegian elite, including Inger, then 15 years of age, swore vengeance after the murder of Knut Alvsson. This promise is driving all of Inger`s actions, and makes her life a living hell.

** In the 1850s they probably had.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: By far the most political play Ibsen wrote, though set in a time long gone.

'''Lady Inger at Austraat''' (''Fru Inger til Østråt'') is a {{period piece}} written by {{Henrik Ibsen}} in 1857. This is one of his most known historical plays, and {{historical domain character}}s are abundant. Lady Inger was a Norwegian noblewoman sitting at her estate in Trøndelag, and was close to the circles of power at the time. The play goes pretty deep into her agonies concerning the fate of {{Norway}}, and the decisions she has to make considering both her daughters, her situation, and her future. Emmisaries from Denmark and Sweden, as well as Norwegian nobles, plot in different directions around her, and difficult decisions has to be made. At the same time, there is rebellion in Sweden, and the farmers in Norway strive to join, but their mission is already doomed, as is the future of lady Inger. The year of the play is 1528, and it is clear that any struggle for independence is bound to fail.

* ShownTheirWork: Ibsen dumps a lot of references here, and shows some thorough research.

** It gets better when considering his life as a {{rebel leader}}. People flocked to him from all corners, and it didn`t occur to him that he could be the spitting image of the dead rebel leader Sten Sture.

* TooDumbToLive: Nils Stensson, entering the stage, spilling his life story to Nils Lykke, who reads the secret letters actually meant for Olaf Skaktavl. Because of this, Niels Lykke gets the upper hand in the gambit contest with Lady Inger.

** Niels Lykke states that a band of Swedish soldiers are situated half a mile from the manor. This would mean a band of Swedish soldiers camping ''almost'' as far inland as possible without getting their feet in the western sea. And this band of soldiers just camped there without incident? Anyway, Nils returns within hours, his band of men slaughtered to the last man.

* ArtisticLicenceGeography: The Austråt manor is sited west of the Firth of Trondheim. In the fourth act, Nils Stensson plans to gather a band of farm soldiers to enter Sweden by Horse. This would mean passing the fjord of Trondheim by boat, or ride an impossibly long route around the fjord to the north, in mountainous terrain, and without roads. This would take several days, and yet Lady Inger implies that a ride to the Swedish border is quite accessible and done in no time.
** Niels Lykke states that a band of Swedish soldiers are situated half a mile from the manor. This would mean a band of Swedish soldiers camping ''almost'' as far inland as possible without getting their feet in the western sea. And this band of soldiers just camped there without incident?

** The entire population in Western Sweden (Dalarna) should be counted in here. They sided with the young Nils Stensson out of blind loyalty to his looks - and nobody seems to have told him who his father probably was (Sten Sture was a known {{folk hero}} at the time. And Nils never asked about it.

** The entire population in Western Sweden (Dalarna) should be counted in here.