04143nam 2200565 450 991055425050332120220215155509.00-300-25624-89780300256246(electronic bk.)0300256248(electronic bk.)10.12987/9780300256246(CKB)4100000011624102(OCoLC)1226062305(DE-B1597)570875(OCoLC)1233040543(DE-B1597)9780300256246(MiAaPQ)EBC6865818(Au-PeEL)EBL6865818(EXLCZ)99410000001162410220220215d2020 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierIbsen's kingdom the man and his works /Evert SprinchornNew Haven ;London :Yale University Press,[2020]©20201 online resource (xiii, 667 pages) portrait0-300-22866-X Print version: SPRINCHORN, EVERT. IBSEN'S KINGDOM. [Place of publication not identified] YALE UNIV Press, 2021 030022866X (OCoLC)1146579649 Includes bibliographical references (pages 631-645) and index.Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE. THE THIRD KINGDOM -- A Contrary Spirit -- A Divided Soul -- The Apprentice -- The Failure -- God's Stepchild -- Purity of Heart -- Peer Gynt -- Peer Gynt Meets Hegel -- Falling Out with Bjørnson -- Falling In with Brandes -- The League of Youth -- Particular Interests -- Old Debts Repaid -- Ibsen in Command -- Those Little Devils -- Anti-Brand -- The Prudent Revolutionary -- Emperor and Galilean -- Ibsen the Mystic -- Julian as Ibsen -- Concordance of Opposites -- Another Triumph -- PART TWO. THE DIVIDED KINGDOM -- Changing Times -- The Problem Play -- Pillars of Society -- The Road to A Doll's House -- The Women Behind the Play -- The Well-Made Play Transformed -- The Ghosts at Rosenvold -- Syphilis, the Unmentionable Disease -- Public Enemy -- The Slain Pegasus -- The Wild Duck -- The Past Recaptured -- The Depths of the Sea -- A Visit to Norway -- Rosmersholm -- After Rosmersholm -- The Lady from the Sea -- The Immoralists -- The Unspoken Hedda -- PART THREE LOST KINGDOM -- World Fame -- New Directions -- Who Is Hilda? -- The Story of Solness -- The Man Behind the Mask -- The Return of Nora -- Solness as Superman -- Conquering France -- Little Eyolf -- John Gabriel Borkman -- Foldal and Hinkel -- Seventieth-Birthday Celebrations -- A Dramatic Epilogue -- The Last Years -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Credits -- IndexA major biography of one of the most important figures in modern drama, evoked through a biographical reading of his plays. Norwegian 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.Dramatists, NorwegianBiographyBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing ArtsbisacshCriticism, interpretation, etc.fastBiographies.fastBiographies.lcgftDramatists, NorwegianBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts.839.8226Sprinchorn Evert1217329MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910554250503321Ibsen's kingdom2815399UNINA