Primary texts
Poems (will be uploaded on Canvas)
“Miner” (1851). In Ibsen’s Poems, edited and translated by John Northam, 27–28. Oslo: Norwegian University Press.
Plays
The Vikings at Helgeland (1858) (any edition)
Brand (1866), preferably in Brand and Peer Gynt, London: Penguin, 2016
Ghosts (1881), preferably in A Doll’s House and other Plays, London: Penguin, 2016.
Little Eyolf (1894), preferably in in The Master Builder and other Plays, London: Penguin, 2016.
Meyer, Michael. 2000 (1991). A Meeting in Rome. In Three Plays about Ibsen and Strindberg. London: Oberon. (Will be uploaded on Canvas)
Letters (will be uploaded on Canvas)
To Bj?rnstjerne Bj?rnson, 16 September 1864 (35–39), 28 January 1865 (35–42, 44–47).
To Georg Brandes, 24 September 1871 (114–116), 4 April 1872 (120–123), 3 January 1882 (198–200).
All letters are contained in Ibsen, Henrik. 1965. Letters and Speeches, edited by Evert Sprinchorn. Clinton, MA: MacGibbon & Kee.
Critical literature (will be uploaded on Canvas)
Andresen, Torbj?rn. 2017. “The Contemporary Reception of Little Eyolf and its Presentation in Henrik Ibsens skrifter”. Ibsen Studies 17 (II): 114–141.
Archer, William. 1972 (1891). “Ghosts and Gibberings”. In Henrik Ibsen. The Critical Heritage, edited by Michael Egan, 209–213. London and New York: Routledge.
Brandes, Georg. 1992 (1871). “Inaugural Lecture, 1871”. In The Theory of the Modern Stage. An Introduction to Modern Theatre and Drama, edited by Eric Bentley, 383–397. London: Penguin.
Canton, Ursula. 2011. Biographical Theatre: Re-Presenting Real People? Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave. (excerpt, pages TBA)
Carnegie, David and David O’Donnell: “Māori Dramaturgy: The Case of Nga Tangata Toa”. In Marc Maufort and David O’Donnell (eds.), Performing Aotearoa. New Zealand Theatre and Drama in an Age of Transition, 219–236. Bruxelles: Peter Lang.
D’Amico, Giuliano. 2013. Domesticating Ibsen for Italy. Enrico and Icilio Polese’s Ibsen Campaign, 131–166. Bari: Edizioni di Pagina.
Durbach, Errol. 1994. “Brand: A Romantic Exile from Paradise”. In Bj?rn Hemmer and Vigdis Ystad (eds.), Contemporary Approaches to Ibsen VIII, 71–82. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.
Engelstad, Fredrik. 1994. “Between Moral Responsibility and Fanaticism: Reflections on Henrik Ibsen’s Brand”. In Bj?rn Hemmer and Vigdis Ystad (eds.), Contemporary Approaches to Ibsen VIII, 83–96. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.
Fuls?s, Narve and Tore Rem. 2018. “No Escape”. In Ibsen, Scandinavia, and the Making of World Drama, 39–66. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press.
Greenblatt, Stephen. 2008. “The Circulation of Social Energy”. In David Lodge and Nigel Wood, Modern Criticism and Theory. A Reader, 555–571.
Helgason, Jón Karl. 2017. “Hallgerd: A Bow-string Breaks”. In Echoes of Valhalla, 77–86. London: Reaktion Books.
Helland, Frode. 2003. “Petrified time: Ibsen's response to modernity, with special emphasis on Little Eyolf”. Ibsen Studies 2 (II): 135–144.
Hemmer, Bj?rn. 1994. “Ibsen and the Realistic Problem Drama”. In The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen, edited by James McFarlane, 68–88. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kaplan, Merrill. 2004. “Hedda and Hj?rdis: Saga and scandal in Hedda Gabler and The Vikings at Helgeland”. Ibsen Studies 4 (I): 18–29.
Ledger, Sally. 2007. “Naturalism: ?Dirt and Horror Pure and Simple?”. In Adventures in Realism, edited by Matthew Beaumont, 68–83. Malden: Blackwell.
Lingard, John. 2001. “Known of Old and Long Familiar. Norwegian Folklore and the Uncanny in Little Eyolf”. In Proceedings – IX International Ibsen Conference, edited by P?l Bj?rby and Asbj?rn Aarseth, 225–232. Bergen: Alvheim&Eide.
Meyer, Michael. 1971. “The New Michelangelo” and “The Wild Duck 1883-1884.” In Ibsen: A Biography, 219–255, 511–542. London: Cardinal.
Moi, Toril. 2006. “The Idealist Straightjacket: Ibsen’s Early Aesthetics”. In Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism, 40–58. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Nilu, Kamaluddin. 2007. “Contemporary Political Relevance of Ibsen’s Brand – the Case of Islamic Fundamentalism”. Ibsen Studies 7 (I): 105–121.
Nygaard, Jon. 2014. “The Wilder the Starting Point: Some Critical Remarks to Michael Meyer’s Ibsen: A Biography”. Scandinavian Studies 86 (I): 72–97.
Rees, Ellen. 2016. “Dramatizing Biographers: Michael Meyer’s A Meeting in Rome and Robert Ferguson’s Dr. Ibsen’s Ghosts”. Modern Drama 59 (I): 75–94.
Reid, John. 2009. “?Biting the Sour Apple?: The Nietzschean Undertow in Little Eyolf”. Modern Drama 52 (I): 1–18.
R?nning, Helge. 2002. “Henrik Ibsen and Italian 19th-century Liberalism”. In Astrid S?ther (ed.), Ibsen and the Arts: Painting – Sculpture – Architecture. Oslo: Centre for Ibsen Studies.
Templeton, Joan. 1997. “Love and Marriage”. In Ibsen’s Women, 204–232. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Tysdahl, Bj?rn. 2003. “An advocatus diaboli reading Ibsen’s letters about art from Rome”. Ibsen Studies 3 (II): 210–224.
Ystad, Vigdis. 1991. “The Young Ibsen – Critic and Theatre-Writer”. Contemporary Approaches to Ibsen 7: 141–160.
Suggested background reading
Meyer, Michael. 1971. Ibsen. A Biography. London: Cardinal.
Janet Garton’s, Toril Moi’s and Tore Rem’s introductions in the respective New Penguin Ibsen editions.