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Shaw's Ibsen


Shaw's Ibsen

A Re-Appraisal
Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries

von: Joan Templeton

90,94 €

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 16.02.2018
ISBN/EAN: 9781137540447
Sprache: englisch

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<div>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 <i>Peer Gynt, </i>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&nbsp;that Shaw’s famous but maligned <i>The Quintessence of Ibsenism</i> reflects Ibsen’s own anti-idealist notion of his work and argues that Shaw’s readings of Ibsen’s plays are pioneering&nbsp;analyses that anticipate later criticism. It offers new readings of Shaw’s “Ibsenist” plays as well as&nbsp;a comprehensive account of Ibsen’s importance for Shaw’s dramatic criticism, from his&nbsp;early journalism to <i>Our Theatres of the Nineties</i>, both as a weapon against the inanities of the&nbsp;Victorian stage and asthe standard bearer for modernism.</div>
<div>Prelims.- 1. The Road to the Quintessence.-&nbsp;2. The Quintessence of Ibsenism, 1891.-&nbsp;3. The Ibsenite in the Theatre, 1892-1898.-&nbsp;4. The Quintessence of Ibsenism Now Completed to the Death of Ibsen, 1913.- Index.</div>
<p><b>Joan Templeton</b> is Professor Emerita of Long Island University, USA, past President of the Ibsen Society of America and the International Ibsen Committee, and has taught at the&nbsp;universities of Paris-Sorbonne, Tours, and Limoges. Her work includes the books <i>Ibsen's Women </i>and&nbsp;<i>Munch’s Ibsen: A Painter’s Visions of a Playwright</i>&nbsp;and twenty-five articles in&nbsp;journals, including <i>PMLA</i>, <i>Modern Drama</i>, <i>Scandinavian Studies</i>, and <i>Ibsen Studies</i>.</p>
<div><p>‘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 <i>The Quintessence of Ibsenism</i>, <i>Our Theatres in the Nineties</i>, and elsewhere. The forensic aspect is brilliantly executed, and the historical and interpretive dimensions are fresh and insightful. <i>Shaw's Ibsen</i>&nbsp;constitutes a milestone in Shaw studies.’</p>

<p>—&nbsp;&nbsp; <b>Martin Meisel</b>, Brander Matthews Professor Emeritus of English and Dramatic Literature, Columbia University, USA</p></div><div><br></div>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&nbsp;<i>Peer Gynt,&nbsp;</i>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&nbsp;that Shaw’s famous but maligned&nbsp;<i>The Quintessence of Ibsenism</i>&nbsp;reflects Ibsen’s own anti-idealist notion of his work and argues that Shaw’s readings of Ibsen’s plays are pioneering&nbsp;analyses that anticipate later criticism. It offers new readings of Shaw’s “Ibsenist” plays as well as&nbsp;a comprehensive account of Ibsen’s importance for Shaw’s dramatic criticism, from his&nbsp;early journalism to&nbsp;<i>Our Theatres of the Nineties</i>, both as a weapon against the inanities of the&nbsp;Victorian stage and as the standard bearer for modernism.
Argues that Shaw was a masterful reader of Ibsen's plays Examines Ibsen’s primordial importance in Shaw’s brilliant but neglected dramatic criticism Challenges the popular notion that Shaw used Ibsen to promote his own world view

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