Overview
- Argues that Shaw was a masterful reader of Ibsen's plays
- Examines Ibsen’s primordial importance in Shaw’s brilliant but neglected dramatic criticism
- Challenges the popular notion that Shaw used Ibsen to promote his own world view
Part of the book series: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries (BSC)
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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Reviews
“Templeton (emer., Long Island Univ.) is an excellent writer and a distinguished thinker. She is also among the foremost experts on Ibsen and an astute interpreter of Shaw. … Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.” (H. I. Einsohn, Choice, Vol. 53 (03), November, 2018)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Joan Templeton is Professor Emerita of Long Island University, USA, past President of the Ibsen Society of America and the International Ibsen Committee, and has taught at the universities of Paris-Sorbonne, Tours, and Limoges. Her work includes the books Ibsen's Women and Munch’s Ibsen: A Painter’s Visions of a Playwright and twenty-five articles in journals, including PMLA, Modern Drama, Scandinavian Studies, and Ibsen Studies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Shaw’s Ibsen
Book Subtitle: A Re-Appraisal
Authors: Joan Templeton
Series Title: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54044-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-54341-7Published: 17 February 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-71316-5Published: 08 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-54044-7Published: 16 February 2018
Series ISSN: 2634-5811
Series E-ISSN: 2634-582X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 359
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations
Topics: Theatre History, Performing Arts, British and Irish Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature