Word: ibsenism
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...When, We Dead Awaken" is Ibsen's last play, but it is assuredly not his finest. Written at an advanced age, as was this drama of martial incompatibility and spiritual resurrection, the last dramatic moment of so great a man, was, obviously, not the best. The play, moreover, is a sort of apologia of an artist's life, the artist in question being, without doubt, Ibsen himself, and most apologias are over talkative. It is a notable tribute to the genius of a great writer that this loquacious effort, as presented last night by the Studio Players, should have aroused...
...play, which Ibsen himself called his "dramatic epilogue," and of which G. Bernard Shaw has said, "Ibsen's magic is nowhere more potent," deals with the inevitable dilemma of an artist who cannot decide whether he shall sacrifice his life...
...Civic Repertory Theatre of New York on Friday and Saturday, December 11 and 12 in Brattle Hall. The play is considered by F. S. Cawley '10, assistant professor of Scandinavian languages, to be a drama that is as true to life now as it was when Henrik Ibsen wrote...
...Green Hat, Dishonored Lady) make her a leading candidate for First Lady of the U. S. stage. The Barretts of Wimpole Street is her first venture into producing on her own. As befits an aspirant for First Ladyship, she contemplates producing more plays, perhaps forming her own company, doing Ibsen, Chekov. Her father, a Buffalo doctor, had never seen her in a first-night until last week...
Professor Halvdan Koht, visiting lecturer at Harvard from the University of Oslo, Norway, is the author of a two volume "Life of Ibsen" to be published by W. W. Norton and the American-Scandinavian Foundation late in March. Coming from Ibsen's birth-place, Skien, the author is intimately aware of the Ibsen traditions. And as editor of Ibsen's letters published during his life had exceptional opportunities for conferring with the dramatist...