Author: Henrik IbsenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Norwegian drama
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
The Works of Henrik Ibsen
Author: Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen
Author: Ivo de FigueiredoPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300245025
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 721
Book Description
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.
The Complete Major Prose Plays
Author: Henrik IbsenPublisher: New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN: 9780374174149
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1143
Book Description
Ibsen's twelve outstanding plays, from Pillars of Society to When We Dead Awaken, are accompanied by brief introductions illuminating the distinctive features of each
The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen
Author: Henrik IbsenIbsen's Kingdom
Author: Evert SprinchornPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300256248
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
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.
Four Great Plays of Henrik Ibsen
Author: Henrick IbsenPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416500383
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Presents four plays by Henrik Ibsen, with detailed explanatory notes, an overview of key themes, and an introduction to the author's life and times.
Henrik Ibsen
Author: Robert FergusonPublisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571274819
Category : Dramatists, Norwegian
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
A biography that provides insight into Henrik Ibsen's personal life, his creative work, and the world in which he lived. It paints the portrait of a complex, emotionally tormented artist - not one who is necessarily likable, but one whom we can understand and appreciate
Works
Author: Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism
Author: Toril MoiPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191502642
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
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.
The Best Known Works of Ibsen
Author: Henrik IbsenPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258225377
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description