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IBSEN COURSE •
Course Syllabus
Required Reading
Week I Material

Week II Material
Week III Material
Week IV Material
Week V Material
Week VI Material
Week VII Material
Week VIII Material
Week IX Material
Week X Material
Week XI Material
Week XII Material
Week XIII Material

 

Ibsen CourseAn Ibsen Course
by Brian Johnston

    Romanticism to Realism is based on a graduate course taught in the School of Drama at Carnegie Mellon University in the fall  of 2006.  It now joins my website offered to readers as a source of information, suggestion and controversy. 


      My hope is the material proves valuable for students and teachers of drama, and to Ibsen enthusiasts who want to gain a deeper understanding of dramatic art through a structured close analysis of a major dramatist''s work.  The focus will be on Ibsen's evolving dramatic artistry.

    Material will be added in the future and the many typos created by rushing weekly essays for classes onto the site will gradually be corrected.  To get the most from the material you are encouraged to have access to critical texts by the author which are referred to continually in the series of critical essays and class notes that follow.  I cite my own texts because, after more than thirty years since The Ibsen Cycle, Ibsen scholars still ignore his own account of his plays as a 'Cycle' with "mutual connections between the plays" that should "be read in the order in which they were written."

   A less egocentric bibliography, however, can be found at the end of Ibsen's Selected Plays, the Norton volume referred to below.



USEFUL TEXTS

Johnston,Brian. Ibsen's Selected Plays (New York: Norton Critical Edition 2004.  This volume contains excerpts from Ibsen's Correspondence and essays by leading scholars and critics.

.Johnston, Brian. The Ibsen Cycle. revised edition. University Park:Pennsylvania State U.P. 1992

Johnston, Brian, Text and Supertext in Ibsen's Drama, Pennsylvania State  U.P. 1989

Johnston, Brian To The Third Empire; Ibsen's Early Drama.Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota Press 1980