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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Performance of text | Sir J. M. Barrie | It had been preceded by Bandelero the Bandit, a brief, unpublished sketch written and performed when Barrie was a student in Edinburgh, and belonged to the same time as Ibsen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 | Katherine Mansfield | The literary house-party at Garsington performed KM
's The Laurels, a kind of Ibsen
-Russian play qtd. in Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press, 1982. 227 Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press, 1982. 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, 2000, pp. 157-73. 171 |
| 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 | |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 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. Newly updated ed., Harry N. Abrams, 1997. 247 |
| 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, 1995. 41-3 |
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