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From:Forum for World Literature Studies (Vol. 2, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe point of departure for this paper is a discussion of the 2006 production of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House at Teatro Avenida in Maputo, Mozambique. The article consists of reflections on the adaptation processes from...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.)A Doll's House is a landmark in drama, but it is confined in its range of social setting to the middle class. For Ibsen, this class denoted a community limited not only in its means of livelihood but also in its outlook....Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: The Saturday ReviewAt last I am beginning to understand anti-Ibsenism. It must be that I am growing old and weak and sentimental and foolish; for I cannot stand up to reality as I did once. Eight years ago, when [“A Doll's House” was first...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Drama for StudentsHenrik Ibsen elevated theatre from mere entertainment to a forum for exposing social problems. Prior to Ibsen, contemporary theatre consisted of historical romance or contrived behavior plays. But with A Doll's House,...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Forum for World Literature Studies (Vol. 2, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAs an emancipating cultural movement, the May Fourth Movement marked a dramatic shift in Chinese national ideology and Chinese playwriting. Ibsenism, upon its introduction into China, played a leading role in the...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: The Theatre[As theater critic for the Daily Telegraph, Britain's largest newspaper, from 1871 to 1898, Scott wielded enormous prestige and influence. He was one of Ibsen's bitterest opponents in England, attacking the dramatist and...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Forum for World Literature Studies (Vol. 2, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn theorizing adaptation, revisions and or translations, scholars have always been of the opinion that every adaptation or translation is an original in its own authentic sense. It is on that basis that we see...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:The English Review (Vol. 19, Issue 4)During the late nineteenth century many women were seeking independence and greater freedom of choice about their lives. In England several of Henrik Ibsen's plays were staged as part of a privately subsidised feminist...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Forum for World Literature Studies (Vol. 2, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTranslation does not merely involve a linguistic interpretation but also a dramaturgical interrogation, including cultural and dramatic traditions in both the source language and the target language texts....Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Forum for World Literature Studies (Vol. 2, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIbsen's A Doll's House (1879) and Robert Bentons film Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) are two of the most significant family dramas in western culture. Not only because they deal with fundamental family relations, but because...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: The Dalhousie Review[(essay date 1990) In the following essay, Ahmad and Gawel examine the connections between capitalism and patriarchy in A Doll’s House, arguing that Nora’s newfound expression happens “only within a system which is...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Victorian Institute Journal[(essay date 2013) In the following essay, Mazur argues that the private practice of home theater, or performing parlor plays, positively influenced the reception of A Doll’s House in Victorian Britain.]...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Law and Justice in Literature, Film and Theater: Nordic Perspectives[(essay date 2013) In the following essay, Markussen examines the way A Doll’s House both represents contemporary Norwegian family law and also challenges it, making connections between the play and real changes in...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.)Like its immediate predecessor A Doll's House, Ghosts announces itself as a domestic drama in three acts. Apart from its similar structure, Ghosts shares with A Doll's House a single interior location, concentration of...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: The Fortnightly Review[A Scottish dramatist and drama critic of the London stage in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Archer advocated that drama possess intellectual content as well as entertainment value. Best known as one...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Comparative Drama (Vol. 50, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe curtain rises to reveal a stage in semi-darkness--with spotlight on a young female Chinese musician upstage, dressed in red and playing jingerhu, a two-stringed traditional Chinese music instrument, and another...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: The Fortnightly Review[In the following excerpt, Archer pronounces A Doll's House the work with which Ibsen abandoned the techniques of Eugène Scribe—the French dramatist credited with creating the intricate, carefully orchestrated theatrical...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Modern Drama (Vol. 41, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedContemporary Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek has written a response to Henrik Ibsen's 1878 'A Doll's House' entitled 'Was geschah, nachdem Nora ihren Mann verlassen hatte oder Stutzen der Gesellschaften,' or, 'What...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: The Fortnightly Review[Gosse was a prominent English man of letters during the late nineteenth century. A prolific literary historian, biographer, and critic, he remains most esteemed for a single and atypical work: Father and Son: A Study of...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: The Drama of Ibsen and Strindberg[(essay date 1962) In the following essay, Lucas studies the characters and the thematic treatment of truth in The Wild Duck, arguing that the play marks a shift in Ibsen's focus from philosophical to psychological...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center