Ibsen’s Drama: Right Action and Tragic Joy argues that in his late plays, Ibsen struggled with and finally repudiated the Aristotelian ideas of reality and change that held sway over the earlier part of his career, and more generally over nineteenth century drama and culture. The first chapter analyzes Aristotle’s Poetics, which centers on the classical relation of catharsis, rational agency, and intelligible change in human affairs. The second chapter presents Nietzsche’s transformation of those topics into a modernist poetics and a modernist agenda for living. The rest of the book analyzes Ghosts, Rosmersholm, and The Master Builder and relates Ibsen’s formal, intellectual, and cultural innovations in these plays to Nietzsche’s assault on the Aristotelian humanism that Victorian Europe valued so highly.
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“This is the best book on Ibsen I have read in years.” —Brian Johnston, Comparative Drama
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Theoharis C. Theoharis teaches at Harvard University and is Editor of The Boston Book Review.
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- Master Builder (Dover Thrift Editions) by Henrik Ibsen on 34 pages
- Hedda Gabler (Dover Thrift Editions) by Henrik Ibsen on 10 pages
- The Gay Science (Dover Philosophical Classics) by Friedrich Nietzsche on 8 pages
- Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche on 6 pages
- Beyond Good & Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future by Friedrich Nietzsche on 6 pages
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- The Bedford Introduction to Drama (4th edition) by Lee A. Jacobus in Back Matter
- A Sourcebook on Naturalist Theatre by Christopher Innes in Back Matter
- A Sourcebook on Naturalist Theatre by Christopher Innes in Back Matter
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