Ibsen's Lively Art. A Performance Study Of The Major Plays

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 1989
Edition: First Edition

Description: 252 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: A play is fundamentally a text for performance, capable of achieving complete expression only in the living encounter between actor and spectator, the Markers argue in their new study of Henrik Ibsen in the theatre. The challenge of his plays has stimulated a remarkable range of creative responses on the part of actors, directors, and stage designers. All agree that a deeper meaning underlies the reality Ibsen represents, yet the precise manner of its expression is the lively variant that gives his greatest plays their abiding fascination in performance. Ibsens Lively Art explores key stage productions and clusters of productions in detail, in an effort to shed new light on the central problems of interpretation governing each of six major Ibsen plays, from a romantic work like Peer Gynt to a late symbolic one like John Gabriel Borkman. Guided by primary sources and often supported by their own firsthand observation, the authors push beyond the more familiar confines of English Ibsen into the less commonly traversed territory of German, Russian, French, and, in particular, Scandinavian theatre culture.

ISBN: 0521266432