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905 reviews 33 followers. July 20, 2014. With The Pillars of Society, we enter a new and final phase in Ibsen’s writing, the so-called 12 prose or realist plays. It is arguable whether such an unruly set of disparate plays should be grouped together.
Pillars of Society was staged for the very first time at the Odense Teater by August Rasmussen's theatre company on 14 November 1877. Ibsen had long since been performed outside Norway, but this was in fact the first world première to take place on a stage outside Norway. The production was well received both by the public and in the press.
Jun 1, 2007 · Henrik Ibsen, poet and playwright was born in Skein, Norway, in 1828. His creative work spanned 50 years, from 1849-1899, and included 25 plays and numerous poems. During his middle, romantic period (1840-1875), Ibsen wrote two important dramatic poems, Brand and Peer Gynt, while the period from 1875-1899 saw the creation of 11 realistic plays ...
Pillars of Society by Henrik Ibsen. DRAMATIS PERSONAE Karsten Bernick, a shipbuilder. Mrs. Bernick, his wife. Olaf, their son, thirteen years old. Martha Bernick, Karsten Bernick’s sister. Johan Tonnesen, Mrs. Bernick’s younger brother. Lona Hessel, Mrs. Bernick’s elder half-sister. Hilmar Tonnesen, Mrs. Bernick’s cousin.
Henrik Ibsen, considered by many to be the father of modern prose drama, was born in Skien, Norway, on March 20, 1828. He was the second of six children. Ibsen’s father was a prominent merchant, but he went bankrupt when Ibsen was eight years old, so Ibsen spent much of his early life living in poverty. From 1851 to 1864, he worked in ...
Mar 22, 2011 · Pillars of Society is the most ignored of the dozen major Ibsen prose plays. Written between 1875 and 1877, it was an immediate success and made Ibsen the champion of radical artists and social reformers throughout Europe. This drama remained part of the standard Ibsen repertory through the first several decades of the twentieth century and was produced a number of times in England and America ...
Dina, the daughter of the dead and disgraced Mrs. Dorf, believes herself to be "lapsed and lost" as her mother was. She was raised by Martha Bernick and believes herself to be unworthy and morally ...
