LEADER 03989nam 22005895 450 001 9910300019203321 005 20200930192152.0 010 $a1-137-54044-3 024 7 $a10.1057/978-1-137-54044-7 035 $a(CKB)3840000000342586 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5301910 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-137-54044-7 035 $a(EXLCZ)993840000000342586 100 $a20180216d2018 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aShaw?s Ibsen$b[electronic resource] $eA Re-Appraisal /$fby Joan Templeton 205 $a1st ed. 2018. 210 1$aNew York :$cPalgrave Macmillan US :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (380 pages) 225 1 $aBernard Shaw and His Contemporaries,$x2634-5811 311 $a1-137-54341-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPrelims -- 1. The Road to the Quintessence -- 2. The Quintessence of Ibsenism, 1891 -- 3. The Ibsenite in the Theatre, 1892-1898 -- 4. The Quintessence of Ibsenism Now Completed to the Death of Ibsen, 1913 -- Index. 330 $a?Profoundly at home in the matter of Ibsen, Joan Templeton has produced a truly important book that demolishes a tired and barren critical cliché concerning Shaw's reading of Ibsen, in The Quintessence of Ibsenism, Our Theatres in the Nineties, and elsewhere. The forensic aspect is brilliantly executed, and the historical and interpretive dimensions are fresh and insightful. Shaw's Ibsen constitutes a milestone in Shaw studies.? ? Martin Meisel, Brander Matthews Professor Emeritus of English and Dramatic Literature, Columbia University, USA This book argues that Shaw was a masterful reader of Ibsen's plays both as texts and as the cornerstone of the modern theatre. Dismantling the notion that Shaw distorted Ibsen to promote his own view of the world, and establishing Shaw?s initial interest in Ibsen as the poet of Peer Gynt, it chronicles Shaw?s important role in the London Ibsen campaign and exposes the falsity of the tradition that Shaw branded Ibsen as a socialist. Further, this study shows that Shaw?s famous but maligned The Quintessence of Ibsenism reflects Ibsen?s own anti-idealist notion of his work and argues that Shaw?s readings of Ibsen?s plays are pioneering analyses that anticipate later criticism. It offers new readings of Shaw?s ?Ibsenist? plays as well as a comprehensive account of Ibsen?s importance for Shaw?s dramatic criticism, from his early journalism to Our Theatres of the Nineties, both as a weapon against the inanities of the Victorian stage and as the standard bearer for modernism. 410 0$aBernard Shaw and His Contemporaries,$x2634-5811 606 $aTheater?History 606 $aPerforming arts 606 $aBritish literature 606 $aLiterature, Modern?20th century 606 $aTheatre History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/415010 606 $aPerforming Arts$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/415030 606 $aBritish and Irish Literature$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/833000 606 $aTwentieth-Century Literature$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/822000 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast 615 0$aTheater?History. 615 0$aPerforming arts. 615 0$aBritish literature. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern?20th century. 615 14$aTheatre History. 615 24$aPerforming Arts. 615 24$aBritish and Irish Literature. 615 24$aTwentieth-Century Literature. 676 $a839.8226 700 $aTempleton$b Joan$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0871358 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910300019203321 996 $aShaw?s Ibsen$91945297 997 $aUNINA