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A play is fundamentally a text for performance, capable of achieving complete expression only in the living encounter between actor and spectator, the Markers argue in their new study of Henrik Ibsen in the theatre. The challenge of his plays has stimulated a remarkable range of creative responses on the part of actors, directors, and stage designers. All agree that a deeper meaning underlies the 'reality' Ibsen represents, yet the precise manner of its expression is the lively variant that gives his greatest plays their abiding fascination in performance. Ibsen's Lively Art explores key stage productions and clusters of productions in detail, in an effort to shed new light on the central problems of interpretation governing each of six major Ibsen plays, from a romantic work like Peer Gynt to a late 'symbolic' one like John Gabriel Borkman. Guided by primary sources and often supported by their own firsthand observation, the authors push beyond the more familiar confines of English Ibsen into the less commonly traversed territory of German, Russian, French, and, in particular, Scandinavian theatre culture.

"Ibsen's Lively Art must surely be one of the best books on Ibsen we have. A model of scholarship and dramatic and literary sensitivity, it is, quite simply, a useful and a wise book; it is also a joy to read." Essays in Theatre

ISBN: 9780521619240
ISBN-10: 0521619246
Audience: Professional
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 268
Published: 17th February 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Dimensions (cm): 22.8 x 15.2  x 1.4
Weight (kg): 0.38