Ibsen at the Centre for Advanced Study

This anthology contains contributions that concern Ibsen's intellectual use of such seminal sources as the Bible, Shakespeare and Kierkegaard; philosophical and dramaturgical analyses of individual plays or groups of plays; analyses from the perspectives of social and idea history; and an examination of the problematic aspects of Ibsen translations. In addition, John Northam writes about Ibsen's beginnings as a published writer, the poems from the Grimstad years, and relates them to his later development as a playwright. Northam also delivers translations of a series of these poems, which were not previously published in a non-Scandinavian language.