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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. 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... |
| Leisure and Society | Kate Parry Frye | When in London KPF
enjoyed going to the theatre, often with John Robert Collins
. She loved Votes for Women! by Elizabeth Robins
in April 1907, thought Ibsen
's A Doll's House splendid in March... |
| Literary responses | Kathleen Caffyn | While this novel enjoyed popular acclaim, it also attracted severe criticism. It was derided by reviewers in the Bookman, the Critic, and the Nation. The Critic reviewer ignored Gwen's final return to... |
| Literary responses | George Paston | Early reviews praised the novel for its wit and humour, though the Athenæum was condescending about the heroine for being just a little Ibsen
ite, a little Woman's Rights, a little emancipationist, but as... |
| names | Rebecca West |
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| Occupation | Elizabeth Robins | This first, unadapted, public production of the play in England was stirring up controversy, particularly because of its resonance with contemporary debates about marriage and women's rights. The following month Robins took on her first... |
| Occupation | Edith Craig | The costumes were judged to be a success, and the performance marked a turning point in her theatrical career. She branched into costume design (having formed a company, Edith Craig and Co.
, which was... |
| Occupation | Mary Angela Dickens | The Silver King was well received and accelerated the careers of its playwrights, Henry Arthur Jones
and Henry Herman
. The two later co-wrote Breaking a Butterfly, one of the first English adaptations of... |
| Occupation | John Millington Synge | At this time he abandoned his dream of pursuing classical music as a career, because public performance made him intensely nervous. Instead, he read Ibsen
and began, for the first time, writing a play of... |
| Occupation | Elizabeth Robins | ER
attended the first London production of Ibsen
's A Doll's House, which she described as [r]emarkable and thrilling. qtd. in John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge, 1995. 53 |
| Occupation | Florence Farr | At Shaw's bidding and with his assistance, FF
began taking roles associated with the New Drama. He persuaded her to take the role of Rebecca in Ibsen
's Rosmersholm, and coached her to... |
| Occupation | Elizabeth Robins | ER
opened in the lead role in Ibsen
's Hedda Gabler, a production which also marked the beginning of her career in theatre management. Demastes, William W., and Katherine E. Kelly, editors. British Playwrights, 1880-1956. Greenwood Press, 1996. 353 |
| Occupation | Naomi Jacob | Briefly back in London in 1944, she returned to the stage as the mother of a troupe of performing acrobats in a stage adaptation of Margery Sharp
's novel The Nutmeg Tree. Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin), 2001. 167 |
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