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In 1890, Henrik Ibsen premiered Hedda Gabler, a play questioning the role of women in Victorian society. Some audiences have viewed Gabler as a woman ... More

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Henrik Ibsen, considered to be the father of modern drama, was a Norwegian playwright. He is responsible for "realistic drama." During the Victorian ... More

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Brilliantly exemplifying Henrik Ibsen's landmark contribution to the theater, this collection contains "A Doll's House, The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler," ... More

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Bjrnstjerne Bjrnson (1832-1910) was a poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, editor, public speaker, theatre director, and one of the most prominent ... More

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This is the first of two plays of this name, originally published in 1883. Bj?rnstjerne Bj?rnson (1832-1910) was a poet, dramatist, novelist, ... More

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Bjrnstjerne Bjrnson (1832-1910) was a poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, editor, public speaker, theatre director, and one of the most prominent ... More

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Born in the slums of Copenhagen, the author was the fourth of 11 children born to an alcoholic stone mason and the daughter of a blacksmith. His ... More

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The painting Vase with Flowers by the Dutch artist Jan van Huysum was in a private collection just outside Christiania (now Oslo) when the Norwegian ... More

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Jess Ornsbo's Odysseus from Vraa is set in a modern environment with characters shorn of any heroic and mythical qualities. Set in late seventeenth ... More

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This study of Ibsen's reception in England and France during the 1890s demonstrates his centrality to early modernist activity.

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Each chapter is a fairly independent guide to the corresponding drama.

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Four of Ibsen's plays centering upon personal awakening and inner transformation through confrontations with family guilt, social hypocrisy, ... More

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Ourika is the story of an African girl growing up in France: based on a true story, it was a runaway bestseller following its first publication in ... More

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Spring's Awakening is a tragi-comedy of teenage sex. Its fourteen-year-old heroine, Wendla, is killed by abortion pills. The young Moritz, terrorized ... More

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A broad ranging introduction to the development of the German novel.

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Anton Chekhov's popularity in the west is without parallel for a foreign writer. He has been absorbed into our culture, and accepted as one of our ... More

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Examines the radical changes in drama during the Romantic period, tracing how these changes affected theatre performance, acting, and audience.

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