This article considers Hallvard Bræin’s 2008 film adaptation of Peer Gynt in light of theories of the post-secular. It argues that the film presents a post-secular interpretation of the ambiguous message of salvation at ...

Kan man se Henrik Ibsen som en forløper for Samuel Beckett, i den forstand at Ibsen kan sies å innlede det Beckett i sine dramaer sluttfører? I Peter Szondis Theorie des modernen Dramas 1880-1950 (1956/1972) behandles både ...

Almost no any other country owned so many performances of A Doll’s House as China, especially in the certain periods, for example, May Fourth Movement period and in 1930s, A Doll’s House is performed in China more frequently ...

This thesis shows that the initial awareness, the first signs of reaction towards performatives and performances in life lies in late modern Europe, i.e. in the 19th century. Besides being the age of late modernity, this ...

The aim of this thesis is to discuss whether Ibsen’s female characters indeed qualify as tragic heroines, that is, whether or not they epitomize in Ibsen’s acceptance the generic concept of “The Tragic Muse”. Due to the ...

The theme of my thesis is the sacrifice of female characters in some of Ibsen’s plays. The questions that I want to ask are the following: Why do these heroines sacrifice their lives and what does their sacrifice consist ...

Analyse av: Et dukkehjem, Vildanden, Når vi døde vågner

The work analyses the connections between the famous Tarantella of a A Doll’s House and the phenomenon of Tarantism. Starting from the recent finding of the treatise of Bergosøe, friend and travelling companion of Ibsen ...