Shaw's Ibsen A Re-Appraisal /

• Main Author: Templeton, Joan (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
• Subjects: Theater-History.; Performing arts.; British literature.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Theatre History.; Performing Arts.; British and Irish Literature.; Twentieth-Century Literature.

'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 brilli...

Table of Contents:

• Prelims
• 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.