| Description |
1 online resource (x, 694 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
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PDF |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Skien -- Grimstad -- Christiania -- Bergen -- Christiania -- Rome -- Dresden -- Munich -- Rome-Munich-Rome -- Munich -- Kristiania -- Arbins Gate. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
Translated into English from the original Norwegian. |
| Subject |
Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906.
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Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906. |
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Dramatists, Norwegian -- 19th century -- Biography.
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Dramatists, Norwegian. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Authors, Norwegian -- 19th century -- Biography.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. |
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary. |
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Authors, Norwegian. |
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Entertainment & Performing Arts. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Biography.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Ferguson, Robert, 1948- translator.
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| Added Title |
Henrik Ibsen. English
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| Other Form: |
Print version: DE FIGUEIREDO, IVO. HENRIK IBSEN. [Place of publication not identified], YALE University Press, 2019 0300208812 (OCoLC)1046468632 |
| ISBN |
9780300245028 (electronic book) |
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0300245025 (electronic book) |
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0300208812 |
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9780300208818 |
| Standard No. |
10.12987/9780300245028 |
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