Ibsen in America: A Century of Change

by Robert A. Schanke

Book Overview

"Dramatic freaks," "a cataract of vapid talk," "an offence to taste"--such were the epithets coined by American critics in the late 19th century about the dramas of the "Bard of Bacteria," Henrik Ibsen. By the 1970s, however, attitudes had reversed. When Washington's Kennedy Center opened its new Eisenhower Theater, they premiered with Ibsen's A Doll's House. This shift in one century from rejection to acceptance, from avant-garde to establishment...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810820994
• ISBN13: 9780810820999
• Release Date: March 1988
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Length: 366 Pages