Book Description
Ibsen's Lively Art explores key stage productions and clusters of productions in detail.
Author : Frederick J. Marker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 33,56 MB
Release : 1989-03-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521266437
Ibsen's Lively Art explores key stage productions and clusters of productions in detail.
Author : Frederick J. Marker
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 18,99 MB
Release : 1989
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Author : Toril Moi
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 25,88 MB
Release : 2008-02-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0191502642
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 fuddy-duddy 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 for his modernism. Situating Ibsen in his cultural context, she shows how unexpected his rise to world fame was, and the extent of his influence on writers such Shaw, Wilde, and Joyce who were seeking to escape the shackles of Victorianism. Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism also rewrites nineteenth-century literary history; positioning Ibsen between visual art and philosophy, the book offers a critique of traditional theories of the opposition between realism and modernism. Modernism, Moi argues, arose from the ruins of idealism, the dominant aesthetic paradigm of the nineteenth century. She also shows why Ibsen still matters to us today, by focusing on two major themes-his explorations of women, men, and marriage and his clear-eyed chronicling of the tension between skepticism and the everyday. This radical new account places Ibsen in his rightful place alongside Baudelaire, Flaubert, and Manet as a founder of European modernism.
Author : Erika Fischer-Lichte
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 36,65 MB
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 1136918906
This book analyses the different ways in which Ibsen’s plays were and are performed in different cultures on five continents and examines the impact of such performances on the theatre, social life, and politics of these cultures. It shows that performing Ibsen means performing multiple modernities.
Author : James Walter McFarlane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 15,53 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521423212
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 : James McFarlane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,58 MB
Release : 1994-02-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 113982502X
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 : Henrik Ibsen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 46,35 MB
Release : 2008-05-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0199536198
This collection of plays is taken from the Oxford Ibsen, James McFarlane's acclaimed scholarly edition.
Author : Egil Törnqvist
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 37,34 MB
Release : 1995-04-27
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521478663
This 1995 critical study of Ibsen's A Doll's House addresses fundamental questions of text, reception and performance. What is the definitive 'version' of A Doll's House: original text, translation, stage presentation, radio version, adaptation to film or television? What occurs when a drama intended for recipients in one language is translated into another, or when a play written for the stage is adapted for radio, television or film? And to what extent do differences between the media and between directorial approaches influence the meaning of the play text? Discussions of these issues include an internal analysis of the dramatic text and comparative performance analysis, framed by the biographical background to the play and its impact on dramas by Strindberg, Shaw and O'Neill and on films by Ingmar Bergman. The book concludes with a list of productions and a select bibliography.
Author : Henrik Ibsen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 21,17 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Danish poetry
ISBN : 9780192837462
Peer Gynt was Ibsen's last work to use poetry as a medium of dramatic expression, and the poetry is brilliantly appropriate to the imaginative swings between Scandinavian oral folk traditions, the Morrocan coast, the Sahara Desert, and the absurdist images of the Cairo madhouse. Thistranslation is taken from the acclaimed Oxford Ibsen.John McFarlane is Emeritus Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia, and General Editor of the Oxford Ibsen.
Author : Evert Sprinchorn
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 18,4 MB
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300256248
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.