Word: rosmersholm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...guise of inherited venereal disease; 4) An Enemy of the People (1882), wherein the honesty of one man makes him the enemy of ordinary folk; 5) The Wild Duck (1884), a play about a sensitive girl who commits suicide when she learns that she is illegitimate; 6) Rosmersholm (1886) in which a husband and wife and "other woman" hound each other until they all commit suicide...
...John Gabriel Borkman, Little Eyolf, Hedda Gabler, The Master-builder, Rosmersholm...
...Rosmersholm. Since Ibsen is generally considered the progenitor of the Renaissance in modern drama, no play of his can be passed lightly by. Rosmersholm has sometimes been thought his greatest. Almost everyone had given it attention on the printed page, but very few had ever seen it acted. Mrs. Fiske, John Mason and George Arliss did it once long...
...revived Rosmersholm was dull. This dullness was possibly due to the insufficiency of Margaret Wycherly in the part of Rebecca West, and to the propaganda which was Ibsen's material. He had seen in his native land political dissension which was ripping the fabric of its history. He protested against this in a play...