Henrik Ibsen

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Standard Name: Ibsen, Henrik
The plays of Henrik Ibsen , nineteenth-century Norwegian poet and dramatist, were both controversial and enormously influential in Britain; their use of realist techniques to address contemporary social problems helped to bring about a revolution in English drama. Elizabeth Robins and Florence Farr played important roles in getting his plays staged in England, and Robins interpreted his characters on stage. After the 1889 production of A Doll's House in London, British feminists claimed Ibsen as an ally, and his name became closely associated with New Woman writers such as George Egerton and Mona Caird . Githa Sowerby and Elizabeth Baker were among the many dramatists influenced by his work.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Performance of text Katherine Mansfield
The literary house-party at Garsington performed KM 's The Laurels, a kind of Ibsen -Russian play
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press.
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(as Carrington called it).
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press.
227
Performance of text Pam Gems
PG 's adaptation of Ibsen 's A Doll's House was first performed at Tyne Wear Theatre in Newcastle.
Aston, Elaine. “Pam Gems: Body Politics and Biography”. The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights, edited by Elaine Aston and Janelle Reinelt, Cambridge University Press, pp. 157-73.
171
Performance of text Sir J. M. Barrie
It had been preceded by Bandelero the Bandit, a brief, unpublished sketch written and performed when Barrie was a student in Edinburgh, and belonged to the same time as Ibsen 's Ghost...
Performance of text George Bernard Shaw
The Theatre Royal in South Shields gave the first performance of Candida, GBS 's response to Ibsen 's A Doll's House, in which he premised that in the real typical doll's house it...
Publishing Henry Handel Richardson
She apparently began to write for a readership after giving up the aim of a musical career, by producing contributions for an unnamed friend's manuscript magazine. Her first attempt was Christmas in Australia, an...
Publishing Mary Angela Dickens
All the Year Round serialized several other of MAD 's novels. In A Valiant Ignorance, serialized between January and August 1893, she explores family dynamics, with a mother anxious about the consequences of her...
Reception Willa Cather
WC 's friend Zoë Akins perceived a kinship between this work and Ibsen 's The Master Builder while she was still reading it; Cather agreed, but added that she thought the later part of her...
Textual Features Beatrice Harraden
It is no wonder that reference books seem divided as to whether this novel depicts an oppressive marriage or an escape from one. BH 's representation of a marriage of this sort is so exaggerated...
Textual Features Barbara Hofland
Although written for young people, this is a powerful critique of the Romantic (and gendered) concept of genius. It opens as Mrs Lewis is being blamed as the cruel controller of Genius she could not...
Textual Features Violet Hunt
VH 's central character here is Phoebe Elles, described by Barbara Belford as a British version of Flaubert 's Madame Bovary.
Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster.
108
Phoebe is unhappily married to (and soon leaves) her abusive husband Mortimer; looking...
Textual Features Elizabeth Robins
This book reflects ER 's interest in eugenics, intermarriage, and suicide. Its emphasis on heredity made several reviewers note Ibsen 's influence.
John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge.
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Textual Features Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
The script uses narrative by Gilot in voice-over to supplement its dramatic settings and tense encounters between people.
Long, Robert Emmet. The Films of Merchant Ivory. Harry N. Abrams.
247
The film as a whole is disturbing in rather the way that Jefferson is and that...
Textual Features Githa Sowerby
The play reflects the prevalent influence of Ibsen in the British drama of this time, not only in its realist approach to social and ethical problems but also in its stifling atmosphere and oppressive Northern...
Textual Features A. S. Byatt
Here the first-person male narrator, a tiny dwarf-like man named Phineas Gilbert Nanson, on impulse abandons his work towards a PhD in English (Byatt skewers a gallery of predictably eccentric and pretentious academics), rejecting poststructural...
Textual Production Dorothy Wellesley
DW 's prose works included a discursive and elusive autobiography, and a biography: Sir George Goldie , Founder of Nigeria, A Memoir. This was, she said, a record of her conversations with Goldie...

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