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Henrik Ibsen : the man and the mask / Ivo de Figueiredo ; translated by Robert Ferguson.
LIBRA PT8890 .F513 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Figueiredo, Ivo de, 1966- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Henrik Ibsen. English
- Language:
- English
- Norwegian
- Subjects (All):
- Dramatists, Norwegian--19th century--Biography.
- Dramatists, Norwegian.
- Authors, Norwegian--19th century--Biography.
- Authors, Norwegian.
- Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906.
- Ibsen, Henrik.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 694 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Skein
- Grimstad
- Christiania
- Bergen
- Rome
- Dresden
- Munich
- Kristiania
- Arbins Gate.
- Notes:
- Originallky published in Norwegian as Henrik Ibsen. Mennesket (2006), Henrik Ibsen. Masken (2007), and as the abridged edition Henrik Ibsen. Mennesket og masken (2010).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Flora Haney Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0300208812
- 9780300208818
- OCLC:
- 1046468632
- Publisher Number:
- 99980207958
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