Mellem Slagene

Mellem Slagene (Between the Battles,{{cite book |last1=Senelick |first1=Laurence |title=National Theatre in Northern and Eastern Europe, 1746-1900 |date=1991 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |page=107}}{{cite book |author1=James McFarlane |editor1-last=Naess |editor1-first=Harald S. |title=A History of Norwegian Literature |date=1993 |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |location=Lincoln, NB |page=132 |chapter=Norwegian Literature 1860-1910}} also translated in 1941 as Between the Acts{{cite book |last1=Sjåvik |first1=Jan |title=The A to Z of Norway |date=2010 |publisher=The Scarecrow Press |location=Lanham, MD |isbn=978-0-8108-7213-4 |page=36}}) is a one-act historical play from 1857 by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson.{{cite encyclopedia |last1=D'Amico |first1=Giuliano |title=Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson |encyclopedia=Norsk biografisk leksikon |year=2019 |url=https://snl.no/Bj%C3%B8rnstjerne_Bj%C3%B8rnson |language=Norwegian |accessdate=May 15, 2020}} The work was published the same year as his best-known work, the peasant novel Synnøve Solbakken. The play was first staged at the Christiania Theater on October 27, 1857. The work was well-received by the critics, and it is still included in the school curriculum to this day.