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Love's Comedy & Peer Gynt
Peer Gynt, Act One, Scene One
Peer Gynt, Act Two, Scene Six
Excerpts from Love's Comedy, Act Two
Emperor and Galilean
Volume I
A Doll House
Ghosts
An Enemy of the People
Hedda Gabler
Volume II
Pillars of Society
The Wild Duck
Rosmersholm
The Master Builder

Volume III
The Lady from the Sea
Little Eyolf
John Gabriel Borkman
When We Dead Awaken

Criticism
The Ibsen Cycle
Text and Supertext
To the Third Empire

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Introduction to the newly translated Love's Comedy & Peer Gynt
Love's Comedy
Peer Gynt:
The choice of rhymed and unrhymed verse
The presence of the excluded romantic themes
The existential argument of the play
'Archetypal' elements in the play
The Tragi-Comedy of Repitition
Play It Again: Re-enacted Story as Tragic Plot
Re-enacted Story as Tragic Plot
Plot-Story Ratio of Sophokles' Oedipus Tyrannos
The Plot-Story Ratio in Ibsen
The Plot a Liberating Re-enactment of the Story
The Artificial Structuring of the Plot
Contrast between the Drama and the Novel
The Plot as Aesthetic Structuring
Arbitrary Story vs. Logical Plot
Plot and Story in The Master Builder

Revolution and the Romantic Theater
Edmund Burke on the Histrionics of Revolution
Thomas Paine on Burke's Histrionics
Theater's New Radical Supertext
Friedrich Schiller: The Concept of a Modern Theater
Ibsen's Cycle as Hegelian Tragedy
The Inutility of Tragedy
The Realist Cycle as an Archetype-filled Tragic Space
The Conditions for the Game of Modern Tragedy
The Comfortless Zone of Tragedy
Ibsen's Invented Norway: a Metaphoric Stage Space
Creating the Dimensions of a Modern Tragic Drama
The Modern World as a Defective Work of Art; The Theme of Alienation

Introduction to Vol. II


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Introduction to Love's Comedy & Peer Gynt (PDF)
Play It Again: Re-enacted Story as Tragic Plot (PDF)
Ibsen's Cycle as Hegelian Tragedy (PDF)
Revolution and the Romantic Theater (PDF)
Introduction to Ibsen, Volume II: Four Plays (PDF)


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