Henrik Ibsen's drama is the most prominent and lasting contribution of the cultural surge seen in Scandinavian literature in the later nineteenth century. When he made his debut in Norway in 1850, ...the nation's literary presence was negligible, yet by 1890 Ibsen had become one of Europe's most famous authors. Contrary to the standard narrative of his move from restrictive provincial origins to liberating European exile, Narve Fulsås and Tore Rem show how Ibsen's trajectory was preconditioned on his continued embeddedness in Scandinavian society and culture, and that he experienced great success in his home markets. This volume traces how Ibsen's works first travelled outside Scandinavia and studies the mechanisms of his appropriation in Germany, Britain and France. Engaging with theories of book dissemination and world literature, and re-assessing the emergence of 'peripheral' literary nations, this book provides new perspectives on the work of this major figure of European literature and theatre.
Taking a solitary stand Luckhurst, Mary
The Lancet (British edition),
11/2012, Letnik:
380, Številka:
9855
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Stockmann, the local doctor and public medical officer of a Norwegian town, has discovered that the spa waters are mixing with contaminated effluent from the tannery and spreading lethal disease and ...infection, explaining the recent cases of typhoid. Greed and short-termism win out, and support for the doctor evaporates; so-called liberals metamorphose into oppressors and censors, and the Mayor, along with the local newspaper editor, Hovstad, are instrumental in ensuring that the town brands Stockmann "an enemy to society".
Directed by Vinge, designed by Müller, and composed by Trond Reinholdtsen (all of whom performed in the piece as well), the production combined cartoon-ish artificiality (hand-painted scenography and ...masked performers gesturing to prerecorded text and sound effects) and extreme reality (destruction, excreta, and stunts). The disenchanted Ragnar doubled as Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver (1976), Aline as the scorned wife Louise Schumacher from Network (1976), Solness as the pitiless banker Gordon Gekko from Wall Street (1987), and Hilda as a Disney princess in a white dress and tiara. The show shockingly started and ended at its advertised time (a first!), because in Norway, as Vinge satirically announced, “the actors have to be in bed by 10:30 p.m.” Most impactful were the production’s demonstrations of safety protocols that reframed the Saga’s typically dangerous stunts as acts of risk management.
The woman in question De Ambrogi, Marco
The Lancet (British edition),
03/2017, Letnik:
389, Številka:
10073
Journal Article
Recenzirano
...it is Hedda Gabler, the central character of Henrik Ibsen's play of 1891, as presented in a production based on an adaptation by Patrick Marber at London's National Theatre. To cast fresh light on ...this enigmatic character, one of the most avant-garde theatre directors in Europe, Belgian Ivo van Hove, has joined forces with the superb acting skills of Ruth Wilson in the title role.
Henrik Ibsen's plays were written at a critical juncture in late-19th-century European culture. Appearing at a time when notions of evolution and heredity were commonplace themes in literature and ...the arts, Ibsenian drama highlights the creative potential offered by contemporary evolutionary thought. In his plays, Ibsen explores variations on the theme of degeneration, imagining how families can become affected by ill-health or other forms of "weakness" that lead to the extinction of the family line. Ibsen and Degeneration looks at the recurrence of ideas of degeneration in three of Ibsen's plays: In Ghosts, it is the motif of syphilis, highly shocking to Ibsen's contemporaries, which serves as an allegory of degeneration. In Rosmersholm, degeneration is reconfigured as an overcultivation that eventually makes a family unfit for life. In Hedda Gabler, meanwhile, Hedda, having been, for all practical purposes, raised as a man, has come to think of herself as one, a circumstance that informs her final decision to end her life - her final degeneration. By reading these three plays from a fresh perspective, Ibsen and Degeneration sheds new light on some of Ibsen's most enduring contributions to world drama.
Ein Wiener am Nordkap Ilgner, Julia
European journal of Scandinavian studies,
10/2023, Letnik:
53, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Abstract The essay examines the exclusive journey to Scandinavia of the 34-year-old Austrian poet Arthur Schnitzler in the summer of 1896 on the basis of its documentation in the diary as well as in ...various correspondences. Especially in his love letters to his mistress Marie Reinhard, the young Viennese author, creates the ,fictional idea of an imaginary journey for two‘ in order to let her participate in his experiences abroad. On this source basis, Schnitzler’s ,touristic view‘ of the north and Western Norway in particular, as well as its productive reception in his literary work, are discussed in order to show the fictional as well as factual components of his image of the north and of northerness in general.
Dukore recalls William Archer's lonely voice against censorship at the 1892 Select Committee on Theatres and Places of Entertainment as well as dramatists' increasing recourse to private performances ...to circumvent the Lord Chamberlain's refusal to license plays. The comparative approach to the film versions of Pygmalion, Saint Joan, Major Barbara, and Caesar and Cleopatra opens a constructive analysis of the various forms of censorship at work through the production process and of Shaw's responses, including selfcensorship, in different contexts. ...they reveal that even before the award of the 1925 Nobel Prize in Literature and his "status enshrined" (158), Shaw had gained a reputation by 1909 that rendered the censors lukewarm about demanding cuts.