Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen
Author: Ivo de Figueiredo
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 721
Release: 2019-04-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0300245025

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.

Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen
Author: Michael Egan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 522
Release: 2013-03-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1134722923

This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set complements the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.

The Complete Major Prose Plays

The Complete Major Prose Plays
Author: Henrik Ibsen
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Total Pages: 1143
Release: 1978-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780374174149

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

Ibsen's Kingdom

Ibsen's Kingdom
Author: Evert Sprinchorn
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 684
Release: 2021-01-26
Genre: 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.

Ibsen's Poems

Ibsen's Poems
Author: Henrik Ibsen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 166
Release: 1986
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

Ibsen's poetry has not until now been widely accessible in translation, which is remarkable considering that several of the poems are closely related to his famous plays. Northam, an eminent Ibsen scholar, offers versions of the 1899 edition of Ibsen's Poems, as well as his Selected Poems 1848-72, published in 1902. Professor Northam's sensitive translations reproduce the metrical form of Ibsen's originals and he provides extensive commentary in the form of headnotes for each poem and an introduction which relates Ibsen's works to their historic and literary context.

Four Great Plays of Henrik Ibsen

Four Great Plays of Henrik Ibsen
Author: Henrick Ibsen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2005-07-26
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1416500383

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.