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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
Romanticism to Realism
an online course by Brian Johnston
(for a more complete chronology visit www.ibsenvoyages.com/chronology.html)
WEEK III: Chronology
I805 |
Death of Friedrich von Schiller |
1811 |
Death of Heinrich von Kleist |
1828 |
Ibsen born (March 20) in Skien, Norway. |
1828 |
Death of Johan Wolfgang von Goethe. |
1837 |
Death of Georg Büchner |
1848 |
Year of revolutions in Europe. Ibsen begins his first play, Catiline Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish Communist Manifesto |
1856 |
George Bernard Shaw (born July 26) |
1859 |
Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species |
1862 |
Ibsen's first major play, Love's Comedy, written in verse. |
1863 |
Major historical play The Pretenders (prose). |
1864 |
Ibsen begins his long exile from Norway: will not return permanently until 1891 |
1866 |
Brand (verse play) published. Establishes Ibsen's fame in Scandinavia |
1867 |
Peer Gynt published |
1871 |
Massacre of the Paris Commune. |
1873 |
Emperor and Galilean(world historical drama in prose) |
1877 |
Pillars of Society inaugurates the cycle of 12 plays. |
1891 |
Ibsen returns to Norway. |
1898 |
Bertolt Brecht born (February 10) |
1899 |
When We Dead Awaken completes the cycle. |
1901 |
Ibsen suffers his first stroke |
1906 |
Ibsen dies (May 23). Samuel Beckett born (April 13). |
