Ibsen's Lively Art A Performance Study of the Major Plays |
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| Author:
| Marker, Frederick J.
Marker, Lise-Lone |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-61924-0 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2005 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $43.99 |
Book Description:
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A play is fundamentally a text for performance, capable of achieving complete expression only in the living encounter between actor and spectator, the Markers argue in their new study of Henrik Ibsen in the theatre. Each generation seems to discover - or rediscover - elements in the great Norwegian playwright's work that renew the dialogue in which the past and the present meet in theatrical performance.
A play is fundamentally a text for performance, capable of achieving complete expression only in the living encounter between actor and spectator, the Markers argue in their new study of Henrik Ibsen in the theatre. Each generation seems to discover - or rediscover - elements in the great Norwegian playwright's work that renew the dialogue in which the past and the present meet in theatrical performance.