Ibsen & Meaning
Ibsen & Meaning

Author: James Walter McFarlane

Publisher: Norvik Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13:

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"At the heart of this book is the series of eight critical introductions written by James McFarlane for the successive volumes of the Oxford Ibsen as they appeared over a twenty year period in the 1960s and 1970s. Taken individually, these prefaces examine with sensitivity and insight the entire corpus of Ibsen's dramatic authorship in its chronological development - and exercise which Ibsen himself urged on any ready who wished to reach the fullest understanding of his work. Taken together, an published as they now are between the cover of this book, these prefaces constitute a uniquely authoritative account of Isben's dramatic achievement." -- back cover

Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen

Author: Michael Egan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-03-07

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13: 1134722923

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This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set complements the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.

Ibsen and the Greeks
Ibsen and the Greeks

Author: Norman Rhodes

Publisher: Bucknell University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780838752982

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"Was Ibsen influenced by Greek culture? Were allusions to the Greeks configured in the Norwegian playwright's works? According to author Norman Rhodes, whether consciously or unconsciously, many of Ibsen's plays are encoded with veiled references to ancient Greek culture. Rhodes also postulates that Ibsen's perception of the importance of the Greeks was most likely mediated to him through German Romanticism and Scandinavian culture." "According to Rhodes, numerous echoes of Greek literature resonate in such early Ibsen plays as Catiline, The Warrior's Barrow, Olaf Liljerkrans, and Love's Comedy. Ibsen's Brand and Peer Gynt are a dialectic pair which in key ways are suggestive of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, A Doll House has important parallels with Sophocles' Antigone, and An Enemy of the People correlates with both Plato's Apology and Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannos. Moreover, a Euripidean sense of fatal irrationality seems inscribed in Ibsen's final plays: the protagonists John Rosmer, Hedda Gabler, Master Builder Solness, John Gabriel Borkman, and the sculptor Rubek all destroy themselves."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Ibsen's Drama
Ibsen's Drama

Author: Einar Ingvald Haugen

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0816608962

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Examines Ibsen's life and work, the ideas that shaped his art, and the influence he had on modern literature and thought

Shaw’s Ibsen
Shaw’s Ibsen

Author: Joan Templeton

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-02-16

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 1137540443

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This book argues that Shaw was a masterful reader of Ibsen's plays both as texts and as the cornerstone of the modern theatre. Dismantling the notion that Shaw distorted Ibsen to promote his own view of the world, and establishing Shaw’s initial interest in Ibsen as the poet of Peer Gynt, it chronicles Shaw’s important role in the London Ibsen campaign and exposes the falsity of the tradition that Shaw branded Ibsen as a socialist. Further, this study shows that Shaw’s famous but maligned The Quintessence of Ibsenism reflects Ibsen’s own anti-idealist notion of his work and argues that Shaw’s readings of Ibsen’s plays are pioneering analyses that anticipate later criticism. It offers new readings of Shaw’s “Ibsenist” plays as well as a comprehensive account of Ibsen’s importance for Shaw’s dramatic criticism, from his early journalism to Our Theatres of the Nineties, both as a weapon against the inanities of the Victorian stage and as the standard bearer for modernism.

Ibsen in America
Ibsen in America

Author: Robert A. Schanke

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780810820999

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"Dramatic freaks," "a cataract of vapid talk," "an offence to taste"--such were the epithets coined by American critics in the late 19th century about the dramas of the "Bard of Bacteria," Henrik Ibsen. By the 1970s, however, attitudes had reversed. When Washington's Kennedy Center opened its new Eisenhower Theater, they premiered with Ibsen's A Doll's House. This shift in one century from rejection to acceptance, from avant-garde to establishment status, did not occur without considerable resistance. Schanke analyzes this evolution from iconoclast to icon. With actresses' essays and interviews about the playwright, index, bibliography, and illustrations of Ibsen productions.

The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen
The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen

Author: James Walter McFarlane

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9780521423212

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In the history of modern theatre, Ibsen is one of the dominating figures. The sixteen chapters of this 1994 Companion explore his life and work, providing an invaluable reference work for students. In chronological terms they range from an account of Ibsen's earliest pieces, through the years of rich experimentation, to the mature 'Ibsenist' plays that made him famous towards the end of the nineteenth century. Among the thematic topics are discussions of Ibsen's comedy, realism, lyric poetry and feminism. Substantial chapters account for Ibsen's influence on the international stage and his challenge to theatre and film directors and playwrights today. Essential reference materials include a full chronology, list of works and essays on twentieth-century criticism and further reading.

Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen

Author: Sally Ledger

Publisher: Northcote House Pub Limited

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 0746311680

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"This edition of Sally Ledger's study of Henrick Ibsen includes a renewed bibliography and an expanded critical evaluation. It surveys Ibsen's total dramatic output, carefully situating his plays in their cultural, historical and intellectual contexts. Ibsen played a seminal role in the development of modern European drama at the end of the nineteenth century. Ledger's book traces the theatrical evolution of his plays as well as considering his impact on late-Victorian London, his response to the 'woman question', his anticipation of Freudian psychology and his debt to Darwinism."--BOOK JACKET.