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Ibsen Skien Telemark Norway A site, with choice of English or Norwegian text, devoted to the playwright. It focusses on Ibsen and his works, providing a great deal of biographical information and links, including one on Skien, the municipality where Ibsen was born. Some points of interest are: | |
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The Ibsen Initiative (A project intended to celebrate the playwright's life in Skein.) | |
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Ibsen Links | |
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The Ibsen Centre This Norwegian page (somewhat slow to load for US users) is sponsored by an institution devoted to the study of Ibsen's works. It contains much good biographical and bibliographical material, and is a valuable site to visit for help with research. | |
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Henrik Ibsen The NYU Medical Humanities/Literature Arts and Medicine database - contains short synopses of An Enemy of the People and Ghosts. | |
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The Wild Duck Online text of Ibsen's The Wild Duck. | |
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Ibsen's Ghosts Summary and commentary of Ibsen's Ghosts. | |
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Henrik Ibsen Quotations Quotations from the author, indexed thematically. | |
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Henrik Ibsen Biography A brief biographical sketch. | |
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The Doll House: The World of Ibsen This is one of the more substantial sites, posted by a teacher/actor/director with a passion for the playwright. These pages contain: | |
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Biography and Ibsen Autobiography | |
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A Chronology of Ibsen's Plays | |
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Ibsen Q&A | |
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A Doll's House On-line text of the play (tr. William Archer). | |
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Directing Ibsen's Little Eyolf (The page author's thesis; the language is somewhat exclusionary, but the ideas are generally lucid and accessible.) | |
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The Social Significance of the Modern Drama: Henrik Ibsen In a letter to George Brandes, shortly after the Paris Commune, Henrik Ibsen wrote concerning the State and political liberty: "The State is the curse of the individual." | |
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Henrik Ibsen and Modern Drama An article: Henrik Ibsen is known as the "people's playwright". On one occasion, while being praised at a celebration and formally thanked for the great works he had created for actors, the well-known playwright exploded: "I write for people, not for actors!" |
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