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Ibsen's kingdom : the man and his works / Evert Sprinchorn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sprinchorn, Evert, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906.
- Ibsen, Henrik.
- Dramatists, Norwegian--Biography.
- Dramatists, Norwegian.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 667 pages) : portrait
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- A major biography of one of the most important figures in modern drama, evoked through a biographical reading of his plays. Norwegian 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART ONE. THE THIRD KINGDOM
- A Contrary Spirit
- A Divided Soul
- The Apprentice
- The Failure
- God's Stepchild
- Purity of Heart
- Peer Gynt
- Peer Gynt Meets Hegel
- Falling Out with Bjørnson
- Falling In with Brandes
- The League of Youth
- Particular Interests
- Old Debts Repaid
- Ibsen in Command
- Those Little Devils
- Anti-Brand
- The Prudent Revolutionary
- Emperor and Galilean
- Ibsen the Mystic
- Julian as Ibsen
- Concordance of Opposites
- Another Triumph
- PART TWO. THE DIVIDED KINGDOM
- Changing Times
- The Problem Play
- Pillars of Society
- The Road to A Doll's House
- The Women Behind the Play
- The Well-Made Play Transformed
- The Ghosts at Rosenvold
- Syphilis, the Unmentionable Disease
- Public Enemy
- The Slain Pegasus
- The Wild Duck
- The Past Recaptured
- The Depths of the Sea
- A Visit to Norway
- Rosmersholm
- After Rosmersholm
- The Lady from the Sea
- The Immoralists
- The Unspoken Hedda
- PART THREE LOST KINGDOM
- World Fame
- New Directions
- Who Is Hilda?
- The Story of Solness
- The Man Behind the Mask
- The Return of Nora
- Solness as Superman
- Conquering France
- Little Eyolf
- John Gabriel Borkman
- Foldal and Hinkel
- Seventieth-Birthday Celebrations
- A Dramatic Epilogue
- The Last Years
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Credits
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 631-645) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: SPRINCHORN, EVERT. IBSEN'S KINGDOM.
- ISBN:
- 0-300-25624-8
- 9780300256246
- 0300256248
- OCLC:
- 1226062305
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