Ibsen in Context

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Henrik Ibsen, the 'Father of Modern Drama', came from a seemingly inauspicious background. What are the key contexts for understanding his appearance on the world stage? This collection provides thirty contributions from leading scholars in theatre studies, literary studies, book history, philosophy, music, and history, offering a rich interdisciplinary understanding of Ibsen's work, with chapters ranging across cultural and aesthetic contexts including feminism, scientific discovery, genre, publishing, music, and the visual arts. The book ends by charting Ibsen's ongoing globalization and gives valuable overviews of major trends within Ibsen studies. Accessibly written, while drawing on the most recent scholarship, Ibsen in Context provides unique access to Ibsen the man, his works, and their afterlives across the world.

Narve Fulsas is Professor of Modern History in the Department of Archaeology, History and Religious Studies at the University of Tromso - the Arctic University of Norway. He has published on Norwegian cultural and intellectual history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The author of the introduction and notes to the critical edition of Ibsen's letters published in Henrik Ibsens skrifter (2005-2010, 4 vols.), he is also the co-author (with Tore Rem) of Ibsen, Scandinavia and the Making of a World Drama (Cambridge, 2018). Tore Rem is Professor of English literature and the Director of the interdisciplinary research initiative UiO: Nordic at the University of Oslo. He has published on Victorian literature, book history and the early English language appropriations of Ibsen and has been head of the board of the Centre for Ibsen Studies. He is editor of the new Penguin Classics Ibsen (2014-19, 4 vols.) and the co-author (with Narve Fulsas) of Ibsen, Scandinavia and the Making of a World Drama (Cambridge, 2018).

'The volume is a fine complement to The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen, ed. by James McFarlane, and it joins a recent spate of titles on the genius progenitor of realism on the modern stage ... Highly recommended.' H. I. Einsohn, Choice Magazine