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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 | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | George Egerton | By adulthood, Chavelita Dunne (later GE
) had already gained proficiency in five or six languages, including Swedish. Mix, Katherine Lyon. A Study in Yellow: The Yellow Book and Its Contributors. Greenwood Press, 1969. 172 |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Florence Farr | One piece critiques Shaw
's clinical treatment of his female models: [H]e seats her in a dentist's chair, puts a gag in her mouth, isolates a tooth as ruthlessly as any dentist and then takes... |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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, 2000, pp. 157-73. 171 |
| 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. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge, 2000. 281 |
| 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 | 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... |
| 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, 1990. 108 |
| 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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