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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: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: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: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: 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: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: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 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: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: 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: New Literary History[(essay date autumn 2006) In the following essay, Lorentzen focuses on the theme of fatherhood in Ibsen's work, stating that in The Wild Duck the playwright illustrates three forms of fatherhood: "the patriarchal father,...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Comparative Drama[(essay date spring 1996) In the following essay, Johnston investigates the "interplay" of competing levels of visual and verbal "dramatic metaphor" in The Wild Duck and argues that the struggle between the spiritual and...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: New Literary History[(essay date autumn 2006) In the following essay, Price proposes that Ibsen uses the figure of the animal to reflect on the relationship between liberation and power in The Wild Duck.] Much of contemporary Ibsen...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:The American Scholar (Vol. 78, Issue 3)Henrik Ibsen and Anton Chekhov gave birth to modern drama, but they pulled it in opposite directions. Beginning with A Doll's House in 1879, Ibsen remade the art of playwriting, creating works that startled audiences...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center