Henrik Ibsen
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 54
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... A Chronological Bibliography Of Ibsen And The Interest Manifested In Him In The English-speaking Countries, As Shown By TRANSLATIONS, Performances, And CommenTaries. With An Alphabetical Index Prefatory Note In this outline an effort is made to record as fully as possible all the English and American translations and performances of Ibsen's dramas and the commentaries on his life and works. As the material would otherwise be too overwhelming, shorter magazine articles on Ibsen are not considered, and for a similar reason none of the lectures on his works are included. Attention is called to the alphabetical index at the end, in which may be found any desired item. A. K. CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY IT is a curious fact that not until twenty-two years after the publication of Ibsen's first drama (" Catilina," 1850), and several years after the publication of some of his greatest and most important works ("Brand," 1866, "Peer Gynt," 1867), did there appear in the English language a sketch of the poet and his writings. To the eminent English literary critic, Edmund Gosse, belongs the honor of having first introduced Ibsen to the English-speaking public. In the number of the Spectator for March 16th, 1872, * there is a review of the small volume of his poems which was published in Copenhagen in 1871; it is not signed, but is written by Mr. Gosse. This review fills the space of about one and one half columns of the magazine; it gives a short outline of Norwegian literature previous to Ibsen, mentioning the names of Wergeland, Welhaven, and A. Munch, and also a few biographical data about Ibsen, calling attention to some of his works, as "The Feast at Solhaug " and " The Pretenders," but strangely enough not to " Brand " and " Peer Gynt." The...