Author: Ivo de Figueiredo
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2019-04-02
Total Pages: 721
ISBN-13: 0300245025
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A magnificent new biography of Henrik Ibsen, among the greatest of modern playwrights Henrik Ibsen (1820–1908) is arguably the most important playwright of the nineteenth century. Globally he remains the most performed playwright after Shakespeare, and Hedda Gabler, A Doll’s House, Peer Gynt, and Ghosts are all masterpieces of psychological insight. This is the first full-scale biography to take a literary as well as historical approach to the works, life, and times of Ibsen. Ivo de Figueiredo shows how, as a man, Ibsen was drawn toward authoritarianism, was absolute in his judgments over others, and resisted the ideas of equality and human rights that formed the bases of the emerging democracies in Europe. And yet as an artist, he advanced debates about the modern individual’s freedom and responsibility—and cultivated his own image accordingly. Where other biographies try to show how the artist creates the art, this book reveals how, in Ibsen’s case, the art shaped the artist.
Author: Henrik Ibsen
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Published: 1978-01-01
Total Pages: 1143
ISBN-13: 9780374174149
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ibsen's twelve outstanding plays, from Pillars of Society to When We Dead Awaken, are accompanied by brief introductions illuminating the distinctive features of each
Author: Evert Sprinchorn
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2021-01-26
Total Pages: 684
ISBN-13: 0300256248
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A major biography of one of the most important figures in modern drama, evoked through a biographical reading of his playsNorwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen achieved unparalleled success in his lifetime and remains one of the most important figures in modern drama. The culmination of a lifetime of scholarship, Evert Sprinchorn’s biography constructs Ibsen’s life through a biographical reading of his plays with provocative and insightful analyses of his works, placing them and their author within the social, political, and intellectual foment of nineteenth-century Europe. This thought-provoking book will captivate anyone interested in the history of drama and the foundations of modernism.
Author: Robert Ferguson
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780571274819
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A biography that provides insight into Henrik Ibsen's personal life, his creative work, and the world in which he lived. It paints the portrait of a complex, emotionally tormented artist - not one who is necessarily likable, but one whom we can understand and appreciate
Author: Henrik Ibsen
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 11
ISBN-13: 0393924041
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Collects five plays spanning Ibsen's career, with general introductions, explanatory annotations, criticism, and selections from his correspondence and other writings.