Mix, Katherine Lyon. A Study in Yellow: The Yellow Book and Its Contributors. Greenwood Press, 1969.
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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.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Characters | Romer Wilson | RW
deals here with the problem of language and the effects of society and civilisation on personal choices and relationships, through the adulterous love affair of the Englishman Rane Smith, who speaks only English, and... |
| Characters | Florence Farr | The Dancing Faun combines elements of melodrama, social realism, and comedy of manners.Grace Travers falls victim to her husband George's schemes to make a fortune by regaining entry into high society through deception and blackmail... |
| Education | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Women were permitted to attend lectures at Kiel only by express permission from each professor involved. Mary Agnes improved her German, learned a great deal about ancient Greece, and also saw productions of most of... |
| Education | H. D. | Following her withdrawal from Bryn Mawr, HD (with Pound
's assistance) embarked on an intensive independent study programme that lasted for five years. During this period she read and studied writers such as William Morris |
| Education | George Egerton | By adulthood, Chavelita Dunne (later GE
) had already gained proficiency in five or six languages, including Swedish. |
| Education | Christina Stead | CS
's father
would have liked to have her education entirely in his own hands. The first books to be her favourites were the works of W. T. Stead
, and fairy stories by the... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Ella Hepworth Dixon | EHD
described her mother, Marian (MacMahon) Hepworth Dixon
as a woman with innate good taste and good manners; she would be just as amiable to a governess as to a duchess. Her mother held progressive... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Henry Handel Richardson | A closer friendship formed in Leipzig was that with a young Scotsman, George Robertson
, who was studying for a PhD in German literature. He reawakened Richardson's interest in books and writing, particularly when she... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Viola Tree | Throughout her life, VT
took direction from her father, the actor-manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
, who had abandoned his job in the family corn-trading business to pursue a career on stage, and had changed... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Grand | In 1896 SG
described her two stepsons, one of whom was only six years younger than her, as the greatest friends I have in the world. Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Heilmann, AnnEditor , Routledge, 2000. 281 |
| Fictionalization | Florence Farr | Ezra Pound
refers to FF
in Canto XXVIII as Loica (i.e. Shaw's Louka): So Loica went out and died there [Ceylon] / After her time in the post-Ibsen
movement. Pound, Ezra. The Cantos of Ezra Pound. New Directions, 1948. 136 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Teresa Deevy | TD
began writing as a child, producing stories about family doings for her mother and sisters. During her last years at school, from 1911, the school magazine, St Ursula's Annual, featured her stories. Living... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | George Egerton | GE
's realism was influenced by the Scandinavian authors she had read while living in Norway, including Ibsen
, Strindberg
, and Björnson
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ledger, Sally. The New Woman. Manchester University Press, 1997. 193-4 Mix, Katherine Lyon. A Study in Yellow: The Yellow Book and Its Contributors. Greenwood Press, 1969. 173 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | U. A. Fanthorpe | The title is ironical, the houses concerned being damaged in the blitz, or such famous fictional dwellings as Ibsen
's Doll's House and Dunsinane Castle in Shakespeare
's Macbeth. Wainwright, Eddie. Taking Stock, A First Study of the Poetry of U.A. Fanthorpe. Peterloo Poets, 1995. 89 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Pearl S. Buck | Back in China in February 1916, Pearl Sydenstricker came under the influence of a generation of radical young Chinese thinkers who were bent on transforming a national consciousness which they felt to be deformed by... |
Timeline
1888
Eleanor Marx
's translation of An Enemy of the People by Ibsen
appeared in The Pillars of Society and Other Plays, edited by Havelock Ellis
.
February 1891
Theatre producer and critic J. T. Grein
founded the Independent Theatre Society
in London to promote literary rather than commercial plays, and the new drama in particular.
Autumn 1904 to summer 1907
Under the management of playwright and director Harley Granville-Barker
and business manager J. E. Vedrenne
, the Court Theatre
became the first permanent home of the new drama.
1944
The Old Vic Company
began its season at New Theatre
in London with Laurence Olivier
and Ralph Richardson
in Ibsen
's Peer Gynt, Shaw
's Arms and the Man, and Shakespeare
's Richard III.