Word: ibsenism
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Shakespearian roles than modern actors: but today plays are perfectly mounted and the actors excel in showing the problems of every day life. In modern plays there is less outward motion and more exposition of human consciousness, less noise and more feeling. This new field has been opened by Ibsen. A star play tries to exploit a single personality and so spoils the harmony of the whole. For this reason no great writer has ever written star plays. The difference between the plays of a generation ago and of today may be seen by comparing Sardou and Ibsen. Sardon...
...Fiske began her stage career at an early age, and at 15 she was taking leading parts. Among her many successful roles "Nora" in Ibsen's "Doll House," and "Becky Sharp" are especially note-worthy...
...Bang gave a recital of scenes from Henrik Ibsen's dramatic poem, "Peer Gynt," last evening in Sanders Theatre. Before the recital Mr. Nikolai Sokoloff, violinist, accompanied by Miss Olga Lycche, rendered two compositions by Grieg, and Miss Olivia Dahl, dressed in native peasant costume, sang folk-songs from Norwegian literature...
...Ibsen, Mr. Bang said, is destined to take a place beside Shakespere. His special contribution to literature consists in his unhesitating portrayal of every-day life, and he is the boldest craftsman of modern times. "He walks straight to the truth...
...Peer Gynt," one of Ibsen's early works, displays the characteristics peculiar to his later and more mature dramas. The underlying theme of the poem consists in the obligations which all youth must meet, and the inevitable results of avoiding them...