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Ibsen's Kingdom: The Man and His Works is a book about Henrik Ibsen and his works by Evert M. Sprinchorn (1923–2022), an American Scandinavian literature scholar. It was published by Yale University Press in 2021 when Sprinchorn was 98. It is described as a biography and more specifically as a biographical reading of Ibsen's plays.
Ibsen is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare, [3] [4] and A Doll's House was the world's most performed play in 2006. [ 5 ] Ibsen was born into the merchant elite of the port town of Skien , and had strong family ties to the families who had held power and wealth in Telemark since the mid-1500s. [ 6 ]
A Doll's House (Danish and Bokmål: Et dukkehjem; also translated as A Doll House) is a three-act play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.It premiered at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having been published earlier that month. [1]
The Master Builder was the first work Ibsen wrote upon his return to Norway in July 1891 after many years spent elsewhere in Europe. It is usually grouped with Ibsen's other works written during this late period of Ibsen's life such as Little Eyolf, John Gabriel Borkman, When We Dead Awaken, and Hedda Gabler. Early reactions to the play by ...
The Oxford Ibsen is a book series containing the most comprehensive English translations of the noted playwright Henrik Ibsen's collected works, edited by James Walter McFarlane (1920–1999) and published between 1960 and 1977. [1]
Hedda Gabler (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈhɛ̂dːɑ ˈɡɑ̀ːblər]) is a play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. The world premiere was staged on 31 January 1891 at the Residenztheater in Munich. Ibsen himself was in attendance, although he remained back-stage. [1]
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Ibsen researcher and director of the Henrik Ibsen Museum in Skien, Jørgen Haave, was critical of the book and argued that it presented a highly misleading image of Ibsen, recycled old myths that had been debunked, contained many errors and misunderstandings, and did not incorporate Ibsen research from the last decade before publication ...