Ibsen In An Hour

Author : Rick Davis,Brian Johnston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1936232162

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Ibsen in an Hour by Rick Davis,Brian Johnston Pdf

In 1850, Henrik Ibsen arrived in Christiania (now Oslo), hoping to begin his university education. Yet something else lay in store for the twenty-two-year-old. Failing his exams in Greek and Arithmetic, he soon moved to Bergen to become "dramatic author" at the new Norwegian theatre there. The rebellious young Ibsen was unsatisfied with the conventional "well-made plays" of his time --- calling them "daily abortions." Instead of conforming to that standard, Ibsen began forging his own plays that launched nineteenth-century drama into the modern world.Setting the playwright in context to his personal life, social, historical and political events, other writers of influence, and more, you will quickly gain a deep understanding of Ibsen and the plays he wrote. Read Ibsen in an Hour and experience his plays like never before. Know the playwright, love the play!The book features:- Ibsen in an Hour, the main essay of the book- Ibsen In a Minute, a snapshot chronology- A complete listing of Ibsen¿s work- A list of Ibsen¿s contemporaries in all fields- Excerpts from Ibsen¿s significant works- An extensive bibliography grouped according to type of reader- An index of the main essay.Playwrights in an Hour is a series devoted to the most produced and studied playwrights in the English language, from the Greek masters to contemporary writers, and written by leading authorities in the field. Each short book places the playwright and his or her work in historical, social, and literary context.Rick Davis is Artistic Director of Theater of the First Amendment, Associate Provost, and Professor of Theater at George Mason University. He was cofounder and Associate Director of the American Ibsen Theater in Pittsburgh. With Brian Johnston, he has translated five Ibsen plays that have seen many major productions and are published by Smith and Kraus. Rick was educated at Lawrence University (B.A.) and the Yale School of Drama (M.F.A., D.F.A.).Brian Johnston has taught at several prestigious universities around the world and currently is retired (emeritus). He has published three critical studies of Ibsen. He has lectured on Ibsen extensively in the United States and internationally. Four volumes of his translations have been published by Smith and Kraus. You may read extensively about Brian Johnston on his web site at www.ibsenvoyages.com.

Author : Ivo de Figueiredo
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300245028

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Henrik Ibsen by Ivo de Figueiredo Pdf

A magnificent new biography of Henrik Ibsen, among the greatest of modern playwrights Henrik Ibsen (1820–1908) is arguably the most important playwright of the nineteenth century. Globally he remains the most performed playwright after Shakespeare, and Hedda Gabler, A Doll’s House, Peer Gynt, and Ghosts are all masterpieces of psychological insight. This is the first full-scale biography to take a literary as well as historical approach to the works, life, and times of Ibsen. Ivo de Figueiredo shows how, as a man, Ibsen was drawn toward authoritarianism, was absolute in his judgments over others, and resisted the ideas of equality and human rights that formed the bases of the emerging democracies in Europe. And yet as an artist, he advanced debates about the modern individual’s freedom and responsibility—and cultivated his own image accordingly. Where other biographies try to show how the artist creates the art, this book reveals how, in Ibsen’s case, the art shaped the artist.

Author : Evert Sprinchorn
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300256246

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Ibsen's Kingdom by Evert Sprinchorn Pdf

A major biography of one of the most important figures in modern drama, evoked through a biographical reading of his playsNorwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen achieved unparalleled success in his lifetime and remains one of the most important figures in modern drama. The culmination of a lifetime of scholarship, Evert Sprinchorn’s biography constructs Ibsen’s life through a biographical reading of his plays with provocative and insightful analyses of his works, placing them and their author within the social, political, and intellectual foment of nineteenth-century Europe. This thought-provoking book will captivate anyone interested in the history of drama and the foundations of modernism.

Author : Brian Johnston
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0271008091

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The Ibsen Cycle by Brian Johnston Pdf

'Attempting no less a task than to demonstrate that Ibsen planned his last twelve plays, beginning with Pillars of Society, as a cycle paralleling exactly Hegel's account of the evolution of the human consciousness, The Phenomenology of Mind, Johnston offers a fresh look at the Norwegian master. Although there is little specific biographical data in support of the author's thesis, he argues compellingly for it in his analysis of the texts themselves. After discussing Hegel's dramatic method of exposition and Ibsen's philosophy, Johnston examines each of the twelve plays in considerable detail. Provocative and sophisticated in its approach, this volume should be widely available to scholars and advanced students of modern drama. ---Library Journal

Author : Toril Moi
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199295876

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Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism by Toril Moi Pdf

Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) is the founder of modern theater, and his plays are performed all over the world. Yet in spite of his unquestioned status as a classic of the stage, Ibsen is often dismissed as a boring old realist, whose plays are of interest only because they remain the gateway to modern theater. In Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism, Toril Moi makes a powerful case not just for Ibsen's modernity, but also for his modernism. Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism situates Ibsen in his cultural context, emphasizes his position as a Norwegian in European culture, and shows how important painting and other visual arts were for his aesthetic education. The book rewrites literary history, reminding modern readers that idealism was the dominant aesthetic paradigm of the nineteenth century. Modernism was born in the ruins of idealism, Moi argues, thus challenging traditional theories of the opposition between realism and modernism. By reading Ibsen's modernist plays as investigations of the fate of love in an age of skepticism, Moi shows why Ibsen still matters to us. In this book, Ibsen's plays are showed to be profoundly concerned by theater and theatricality, both on stage and in everyday life. Ibsen's unsettling explorations of women, men and marriage here emerge as chronicles of the tension between skepticism and the everyday, and between critique and utopia in modernity. This radical new account places Ibsen in his rightful place alongside Baudelaire, Flaubert and Manet as a founder of European modernism.

Author : Henrik Ibsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:18934582

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Ibsen's Prose Dramas: Lady Inger of Ostrat. - The Vikings at Helgeland. - The pretenders by Henrik Ibsen Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare,Oscar Wilde,Henrik Ibsen
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-22
Category : Drama
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Love, Wit, and Liberation: Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Wilde's Earnest Comedy, Ibsen's A Doll's House [Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare/ The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People by Oscar Wilde/A Doll's House : a play by Henrik Ibsen] by William Shakespeare,Oscar Wilde,Henrik Ibsen Pdf

Book 1: Immerse yourself in the timeless tragedy of love with “Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.” Shakespeare's poetic brilliance unfolds in this tale of star-crossed lovers, whose passion transcends the barriers of feuding families, leaving an indelible mark on the world of literature. Book 2: Indulge in the wit and satire of Oscar Wilde with “The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People.” Wilde's comedic masterpiece takes readers on a delightful romp through the intricacies of social expectations and the absurdities of double lives, delivering laughter with a touch of biting social commentary. Book 3: Witness a revolutionary exploration of gender roles in “A Doll's House: A Play by Henrik Ibsen.” Ibsen's groundbreaking drama follows the compelling journey of Nora Helmer as she confronts societal norms, personal identity, and the pursuit of autonomy in a world that challenges the status quo.

Author : H. Logeman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401187848

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A Commentary, critical and explanatory on the Norwegian text of Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt its language, literary associations and folklore by H. Logeman Pdf

This critical study of the existing Peer Gynt texts, with the exception of {sect}{sect} 140, 141 and a few notes added here and there in the text, was written in the spring of 1914 and even com posed down to {sect} 104. It was to have been published in the Recueil de la Faculte de Philo sophie et Lettres de l'Universite de Gand in the September of that year, contemporaneou.

Author : James Walter McFarlane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Drama
ISBN : 052142321X

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The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen by James Walter McFarlane Pdf

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.

Author : Joan Templeton
Publisher : Plunkett Lake Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Ibsen's Women by Joan Templeton Pdf

The first comprehensive study of the women in Ibsen’s life and work, this landmark book provides a close reading of actual and fictional women as it re-examines the biographical and critical record. In clear, much praised writing, Templeton traces patterns of gender throughout Ibsen’s plays, from the portrayals of women in the little known early dramas to the famous protagonists of A Doll House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, and the women of the “last quartet.” Templeton offers a reappraisal of the debated question of Ibsen’s relation to feminism, arguing against a false and demeaning critical tradition, and provides important new information on the young women of Ibsen’s later years and their presence in his plays. The book has been praised as incisive, masterful, provocative, and — a rarity among scholarly books — accessible to the general reader. “Joan Templeton’s Ibsen’s Women is a book to contend with. Templeton is a major Ibsen scholar who has written a tonic evaluation of what a major dramatist actually wrought. A delight to read.” — Arnold Weinstein, Scandinavian Studies “Ibsen’s Women marks a paradigm shift in Ibsen scholarship, moving ‘the woman question’ from the marginal category of ‘an aspect of’ to the core of the dramatic oeuvre. This is dazzling close reading, sophisticated, rigorous, artful. Templeton’s command of her material is masterly.” — Mary Kay Norseng, Ibsen News and Comment “Why is A Doll House not dated? This is one of the questions Joan Templeton answers in this very important book. Her style is witty and graceful and blessedly free of jargon. Her text is aimed at a wide variety of readers.” — Barry Jacobs, The Boston Review of Books “A goldmine of information... The scope and wide-ranging coverage of this book make it indispensable for anybody wishing to teach or write about Ibsen.” — Toril Moi,Ibsen Studies “Rich and rewarding. The close textual analysis supports Templeton’s thesis that Ibsen’s plays and his women characters are quintessentially feminist. A strong argument for the connection between Ibsen’s women and Ibsen’s modernism. Recommended for all collections.” — Choice

Author : Erika Fischer-Lichte,Barbara Gronau,Christel Weiler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136918902

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Global Ibsen by Erika Fischer-Lichte,Barbara Gronau,Christel Weiler Pdf

Ibsen’s plays rank among those most frequently performed world-wide, rivaled only by Brecht, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and the Greek tragedies. By the time Ibsen died in 1906, his plays had already conquered the theaters of the Western world. Inviting rapturous praise as well as fierce controversy, they were performed in Europe, North America, and Australia, contributing greatly to the theater, culture, and social life of these continents. Soon after Ibsen’s death, his plays entered the stages of East Asia - Japan, China, Korea - as well as Africa and Latin America. . But while there exist countless studies on Ibsen the dramatist and the significance of his plays within different cultures written mainly by literary scholars, none of them examine the ways in which Ibsen's plays were performed, or the impact of such performances on the theater, social life, and politics of these cultures. In Global Ibsen, contributors look at the way performances of Ibsen's plays address problems typical to modern societies all over the world, including: the inferior social status of women, the decay of bourgeois family life and values, religious fundamentalism, industrial pollution and corporate cover-up, and/or the loss of and search for identity.

Author : Michael Egan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134722921

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Henrik Ibsen by Michael Egan Pdf

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.

Author : Irina Ruppo Malone
Publisher : Springer
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230276116

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Ibsen and the Irish Revival by Irina Ruppo Malone Pdf

Ibsen and the Irish Revival examines Henrik Ibsen's influence on the Irish Revival and the reception of his plays in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Dublin. It highlights the international dimension of the Irish Literary Revival and offers new perspectives on W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge, Lennox Robinson, James Joyce, George Moore and Sean O'Casey.

Author : Mark B. Sandberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107033924

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Ibsen's Houses by Mark B. Sandberg Pdf

Mark B. Sandberg analyses reception materials to explore the architectural metaphors that Ibsen's plays introduced into mainstream Western thought.

Author : Brian Johnston
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271027241

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Text and Supertext in Ibsen's Drama by Brian Johnston Pdf

Brian Johnston's approach to Ibsen, now well known, is unlike any other. Johnston sees Ibsen's twelve realist plays as a single cyclical work, the "realist" method of which hides a much larger poetic intention than has previously been suspected. He believes that the cycle constitutes one of the major works of the European imagination, comparable in scale to Goethe or Dante. And he has shown Ibsen to be the heir to Romantic and Hegelian art and thought, adapting this heritage to the circumstances of his own day. This work demonstrates how the language and scene, characters and "props," of the Ibsen dramas establish a bold and far-reaching theatrical goal: nothing less than an account of our biological and cultural identity in its multilayered totality. Johnston argues that Ibsen's realist text, while stimulating the appearance of nineteenth-century life, also objectively and precisely builds up an alternative image in which archetypal figures and situations from our cultural past repossess the realist stage. Thus he sees the Ibsen "strategy" in his realist plays as twofold: (1) the dialectical subversion of the nineteenth-century reality presented in the plays, and (2) the forced recovery of the archetypal from the past, in a procedure similar to James Joyce's in Ulysses. By "supertext" Johnston means a reservoir of cultural reference upon which Ibsen continuously drew in his realist work just as in is earlier poetic and historical dramas. Brian Johnston is Chief Editor of Theater Three. He is the author of The Ibsen Cycle and To the Third Empire, and is Visiting Professor, Department of Drama, Carnegie Mellon University.