Ibsen Cycle
The Design of the Plays from Pillars of Society to When We Dead Awaken
432 pages | 6 x 9 | 1992
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Brian Johnston is editor of Theater Three and author of To the Third Empire (Minnesota, 1980) and Text and Supertext in Ibsen's Drama (Penn State, 1989).
Preface to The Ibsen Cycle ix
Preface to the First Edition xv
Acknowledgments xix
Abbreviations xxi
Introduction 1
PART I
1 The "Dramatic" Content of Hegel's Philosophy 27
2 The Philosophical Content of Ibsen's Drama 65
3 The Structure of the Cycle 98
PART I1
4 Archetypal Repetition in Ghosts 189
5 The Dialectic of Rosmersholm 237
6 Death and Transfiguration in The Master Builder 289
Epilogue: Ibsen and Modernism 353
Appendix 1: Ghosts 376
Appendix 2: Rosmersholm 380
Appendix 3: The Master Builder 390
Selected Bibliography 397
Index 404