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Henrik Ibsen : the man and the mask
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.
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Henrik Ibsen
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, andHedda Gabler,A Doll's House,Peer Gynt, andGhostsare 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.
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Famous authors. Henrik Ibsen : dramatist 1828-1906
Henrik Ibsen was born in the small coastal town of Skien in Norway. His family were middle class burghers. He worked as an apprentice to an apothecary before going to Oslo to study. He began writing plays which found little favour in Norway. He lived and wrote for about 30 years in Italy and Germany and became recognised worldwide as the greatest dramatist of his age and the Father of modern drama. The film traces his life and is followed by a brief overview of his works.
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Trolls, Trills, and Tofu: Ibsen, Verdi, and Kabuki
Unlike post-Cartesian theater of the West, Kabuki, traditional Japanese theater, exercises the broad, sensual appeal of being the whole theater. Pronko explores the qualities of Kabuki found in the work of Verdi and Ibsen.
Journal Article
A Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House is a \"revolutionary tale of self-discovery that gave birth to modern drama\" (Literary Cavalcade). Read an excerpt of this play. Biographical information on Ibsen is included.
Magazine Article
“It’s only a play”: Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (1879), Adamson’s Wife (2019), and the Relevance of Historical Theatre
Julie Holledge, Jonathan Bollen, Frode Helland, and Joanne Tompkins, writing of A Doll's House (1879) specifically, note that The conditions that supported the promotion and dissemination of Et dukkehjem during this first wave of international success disappeared with the outbreak of war in Europe in 1914, but the connections between the play and other sexual vectors of social change have never disappeared. The character of Nora has continued to attract artists who are intent on challenging social discrimination.2 The initial \"conditions\" Holledge et al note as fostering the success of Ibsen in the last decades of the nineteenth century still characterize much of the world: the injustices and oppressive practices Ibsen wrote against continue today, if perhaps in different forms. [...]the four debate how the legalization of same-sex marriage has changed the institution of marriage. Ivar and Clare finally conclude that the oppression that was at the heart of marriage in 1879 remains and both leave their respective partners.
Journal Article
Modernist Visions Beyond the Horizon of History: The Theatricality of Bai Wei’s Rarely Staged Plays
This article explores the theatricality of the works of Bai Wei 白薇 (1894–1987), one of the most prolific women playwrights in early twentieth century China. Her play scripts garnered huge popularity and were frequently reprinted, but were rarely staged. Due to the lack of staging opportunities, their unconventional modernist style, and the paucity of production records, these scripts have been largely deemed unproducible and low in theatricality by scholars and critics both now and then. Through a detailed production analysis of three aspects of Bai’s plays (acting, set design, and stage effects), I argue that Bai’s rarely staged scripts are embedded with rich theatrical intentions and implications. The correlation between the number of staging records and the plays’ intrinsic theatrical value is completely arbitrary, and Bai’s scripts envision a modernist theatre with artistic potentials ahead of her time.
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Ibsen and the Repertory System: Peer Gynt on the German Stage
Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt remained a rarely performed play throughout the author's lifetime. It was not until around the outbreak of the First World War that stage productions of the play began to proliferate. This article examines the pre-1945 production history of the play in the light of a concept that signifies a particular way of composing a repertoire, the repertory system. It was first and foremost prominent stages in Germany that paved the way for Peer Gynt to become incorporated into this system, leading to an exponential growth in the number of stage events. The production history illustrates how plays that are performed over a long period of time question the notion of production as a fixed mise en scène. Supporting Linda Hutcheon's argument about adaptation as a continuous process, the productions examined here demonstrate that there was no such thing as a standard way to adapt Peer Gynt for the stage.
Journal Article
Characterisation through Linguistic (Im) politeness in A Doll’s House
Pragmatic aspects of characterisation have currently been of great interest to scholars. Characterisation is a process of introducing characters in a play to the audience by the playwright. It is also an artful attempt to make the audience indulge in the characters’ private or public life. Additionally, characterisation is crucial for a playwright to construct his/her characters with unique and different character traits with whom the audience can easily feel sympathy or empathy. Everyday interactions and dramatic dialogues are full of character faces. Naturally, everyone wants and desires to keep their faces unassailed for smooth interaction and conversation. The paper examines the linguistic strategies of (im)politeness in dramatic text, namely Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (1879), according to Penelope Brown and Stephen Levinson’s Politeness Theory (PT) and Jonathan Culpeper’s Impoliteness Strategies. This play has been chosen for our analysis because A Doll’s House is one of the masterpieces of Ibsen, known for his social realistic plays. Moreover, it is one of the renowned modern plays depicting strong characterisation. The paper also focuses on analysing the dramatic interactions of the major characters, Nora and Helmer, living in a patriarchy-driven society from a linguistic and discourse-oriented perspective. It also demonstrates that Nora has transformed from a subservient, meek and obedient character to a rebellious and independent one, while Helmer Torvald has become a submissive, tolerant and accepting character.
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