Word: ibsen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Strindberg Ibsen...
...backward. One barometer of the theatrical weather is the latest work of the best U.S. playwrights. For more than two decades, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams have dominated the American stage in much the way that Hemingway and Faulkner once dominated the novel. Miller is dramatically the descendant of Ibsen and socioeconomically the child of Marx. Williams is dramatically the descendant of Chekhov and psychologically the child of Freud. At present, they seem to have depleted their inheritance...
...After I graduated from Dartmouth I went to Cambridge. At Cambridge was the great illumination, I got to know I. A. Richards, and a highly active group of poets including William Ibsen, Kathleen Paine, and T. H. White...
...other hand, brute honesty is not particularly indicated; this is not an Ibsen's Wild Duck situation. You listen to something and you try to respond more or less the way you feel, within the bounds of judgment. You don't tell the patient, "We won't talk about that because I'm scared." What you might say is, "That's kind of a frightening idea." He may be frightened...
...agitated. Out of the turbulance emerges a small figure, black-haired and mustachioed. He turns three somersaults in plain view of the two authors. We discover he is Brecht's Arturo Ui. "In America," he says, "they think Three Penny Opera is a musical comedy." Brecht begins to weep. Ibsen hugs himself, pulls his knees up to his chest and falls off the chair, laughing...