Word: ibsenism
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GHOSTS by HENRIK IBSEN...
...PHILANDERER. I guess you could call Shaw a communist, and he was pretty discontented with Jesus's refusal to defend himself. The Philanderer takes place in an Ibsen club, and it's hard on half-assed radicals. Like me. Tonight through Saturday, 8 in the Lowell House...
WHILE EUROPE reeled in shock before Ibsen's drama of a woman who leaves her husband, the characters of Shaw's The Philander calmly consorted themselves into the Ibsen club, a forward-looking institution open only to men who are not manly and women who are not womanly. Within the first few minutes of the satire it becomes apparent, however, that several members of the group are behaving dangerously like members of their respective sexes, despite their "advanced" views. The resolution of their unseemly romantic intrigue is the substance of this comedy which Shaw classed an "unpleasant play" -- unpleasant because...
...Salome was more than a lady of splendid connections. She was also a novelist, critic, and thinker in her own right, figuring among the leading authoresses of her day. She write several novels, a play, a critical work on Ibsen's heroines, an exposition of Neitzsche, and an autobiography, Lebensruckblick, which along with her Freud Journal, is her best known work today...
...PHILANDERER. Shaw on Ibsen clubs and liberated groupies. 7:30 at the Loeb...