Evert Sprinchorn
Ibsen's Kingdom. The Man and His Works
Yale University Press, jan. 2021
ISBN: 9780300228663 — 688 p.
A major biography of one of the most important figures in modern drama, evoked through a biographical reading of his plays
Nineteenth-century Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen achieved unparalleled success in his lifetime and remains one of the most important figures in modern drama. The culmination of a lifetime of scholarship, Evert Sprinchorn’s ambitious biography constructs Ibsen’s life through a biographical reading of his plays. It presents provocative and insightful analyses of Ibsen’s works, placing them and their author within the social, political, and intellectual foment of nineteenth-century Europe. Sprinchorn captures for readers what it is that made these plays genius, and how Ibsen’s works attained their influential place not only in the field of drama, but in a wide intellectual sphere across Europe and the world. This sweeping new look at Ibsen’s plays is informative and useful as well as absorbing and thought-provoking. It will captivate anyone interested in the history of drama and the foundations of modernism.
Evert Sprinchorn is a senior scholar of Scandinavian literature and drama and nineteenth-century intellectual history. He is professor emeritus in the drama department at Vassar College and the author of Strindberg as Dramatist, among other books.
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On peut lire sur nonfiction.fr un article sur cet ouvrage :
"Ibsen le constructeur", par Vincent Giroud (en ligne le 25 mai 2021)
Une nouvelle biographie du dramaturge norvégien par l'un des grands spécialistes actuels du théâtre scandinave renouvelle notre connaissance d'Ibsen et de son rayonnement sur la culture de son temps.