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Ibsen's Legacy: Making the Theater Matter
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How the great Norwegian writer became the father of modern drama.
HENRK IBSEN'S LEGACY IS, QUITE SIMPLY, THE THEATER as we know it. Ibsen is the father of modern drama, a theater not about "them"-the kings and nobles of Shakespeare and Schiller, the bourgeoisie of Molière-but "us." The great novelty of Ibsen's plays was that they were about people who resembled his audience; his characters spoke the same language, lived in the same sorts of rooms, faced the same sorts of problems, or,...
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Why China's love for Ibsen was such a drama
China Daily
; Chinese infatuation with Henrik Ibsen started a year after he died. In 1907, the great Chinese writer Lu Xun (1881-1936) first introduced the Norwegian dramatist and poet to Chinese readers in the monthly literature magazine "He Nan." Many great Chinese men of letters, including Hu Shi (1891-1962),
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Ibsen and the birth of modernism: a review essay.(Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism: Art, Theater, Philosophy)(Book review)
Scandinavian Studies
; ... show much interest in Ibsen, the plethora of articles in the International Ibsen Bibliography and the annual survey in Ibsen News and Comment demonstrate otherwise. In her zeal to make Ibsen an author in disfavor since World War II, Moi quotes from a 1947 ...
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Kwok-kan Tam. Ibsen in China 1908-1997: A Critical-Annotated Bibliography of Criticism, Translation and Performance.(Book Review)
China Review International
; Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2001. x, 263 pp. Hardcover $29.00, ISBN 962-201-907-2. This bibliography is the result of twenty years of research by its author. During this period, Kwok-kan Tam wrote a dissertation and a dozen articles on Ibsen's influence in China, in addition to his
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China to host vibrant Ibsen year
China Daily
; This year marks the 100th anniversary of the passing away of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) and the Norwegian Ministry of Cultural Affairs will commemorate 2006 as the "Ibsen year" all over the world. The Norwegian Embassy in Beijing will present the Ibsen year in China. A series of
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Ibsen's Women.(Review)
Scandinavian Studies
; Joan Templeton. Ibsen's Women. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997. Pp. ixxi + 386. $64.95. Joan Templeton's Ibsen's Women is a book to contend with. Templeton is a major Ibsen scholar, and her reading of Ibsen is broad-gauged and inclusive, fully conversant with the traditions of Ibsen commentary,
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