ISBN: HB: 9780300228663

Yale University Press

March 2021

688 pp.

23,5x15,6 cm

32 black&white illus.

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£37.50
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Ibsen's Kingdom

The Man and His Works

Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen achieved unparalleled success in his lifetime and remains one of the most important figures in modern drama. The culmination of a lifetime of scholarship, Evert Sprinchorn's biography constructs Ibsen's life through a biographical reading of his plays with provocative and insightful analyses of his works, placing them and their author within the social, political, and intellectual foment of nineteenth-century Europe. This thought-provoking book will captivate anyone interested in the history of drama and the foundations of modernism.

About the author

Evert Sprinchorn is a senior scholar of Scandinavian literature and drama and nineteenth-century intellectual history. He is Professor emeritus in the drama department at Vassar College and the author of "Strindberg as Dramatist", among other books.