Reading list (preliminary):
Henrik Ibsen: Catiline
Henrik Ibsen: The Vikings at Helgeland
Henrik Ibsen: Peer Gynt
Henrik Ibsen: John Gabriel Borkmann
Henrik Ibsen: ”Childhood memories”, letters, speeches, prefaces and poems
Michael Meyer: Ibsen
Asbj?rn Aarseth: “Ibsen’s Dramatic Apprenticeship”, J. McFarlane (ed.): Cambridge Companion to Ibsen, (1994) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Roland Lysell: “The Dark Side of Sexuality in Ibsen’s Catiline”, (2005) North-West Passage, Turin (no 2/2005)
Thomas Van Laan: “Introduction to Catiline”, (1992) Catiline and The Burial Mound, translated from Dano-Norwegian, with introductions by Thomas F. Van Laan, Garland Publishing, New York
Ellen Rees: ”Dramatizing Biographers: Michael Meyer’s A Meeting in Rome and Robert Ferguson’s Dr. Ibsen’s Ghosts” (2016) Modern Drama, Vol 59, no. 1
Tore Rem: “Englishing Ibsen: The Socialist Perspective”, in Paul Goring et.al. (Eds): Each Other’s Yarns. Essays on Narrative and Critical Method for Jeremy Hawthorne, Novus Press, Oslo 2012
Frode Helland and Julie Holledge: “A Doll’s House as National Tradition: Understanding the Construction of Aesthetic Value”, in K. Aukrust (ed.): Assigning Cultural Values, PL Academic Research, Frankfurt am Main 2013
Jon Nygaard: “The Wilder the Starting Point: Some Critical Remarks to Michael Meyer’s Ibsen: A Biography”, Scandinavian Studies, Vol 86, no 1, Spring 2014
Jürgen Kocka: “The Middle Classes in Europe”, in Kocka: Industrial Culture and Bourgeois Society, (1999) Berghahn Books, New York, pp. 231-254
For Julie Holledge’s classes:
Frederick J Marker and Lise-Lone Marker (1996) A History of Scandinavian Theatre Cambridge: CUP (Chapter 5, 6, and 7)
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Ellis, Sos. (2013). Acts of Desire: Women and Sex on Stage 1800-1930. Oxford: OUP (Chapters 3 and 4)
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Cima, Gay Gibson. 1983. “Discovering Signs: The Emergence of the Critical Actor in Ibsen.” In “Aporia: Revision, Representation and Intertexual Theatre,” special issue, Theatre Journal 35 (1): 5-22.
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Stanislavsky, Konstantin and Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood. 1964. 'Director’s Diary, 1905: The MAT Production of Ibsen’s “Ghosts”'. The Tulane Drama Review, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Autumn) pp.26-41