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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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...
Other Life Event Ella Hepworth Dixon
EHD helped William Heinemann , William Archer , and Elizabeth Robins put on a reading of Ibsen'sJohn Gabriel Borkman in London for copyright purposes. She played a small part, which she read in German...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
She praises Ibsen 's characterization of women. [A] man that thoroughly understands a woman, she writes, was a very great man indeed. There are two or three people who can tell stories about her, and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Textual Production Matilda Betham-Edwards
Helen Black questioned her closely about her preferences in literature, and learned that Betham-Edwards endeavour[ed] to appreciate all the living novelists, but found the school of Tolstoy , Ibsen , and Zolarepulsive in the...
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...

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