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This Guide: Ibsen in Context
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Aull, Felice.
Ibsen, Henrik. [Online].
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The site contains succinct online annotations to An Enemy of the People and Ghosts. Part of the more comprehensive NYU School of Medicine Medical Humanities site.
Bryan, George B.
An Ibsen companion: a dictionary-guide to the life, works, and critical reception of
Henrik Ibsen. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984.
This dictionary includes brief factual entries and character sketches as well as longer essays on Ibsen's works.
CALL NUMBER: PT 8887 .B79 1984
Gale Research Company.
Twentieth-century literary criticism. Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research Co.
v. 1- 1978-
The entry devoted to Ibsen's An Enemy of the People in Volume 52 contains extensive excerpts from the critical commentary on that play from as early as 1895. This is an extremely useful source for gaining insight into how the work was initially and for tracing how critics and scholars view it 100 years later. [Ibsen is also covered in Volumes 2, 8, 16, and 37 of TCLC.]
CALL NUMBER: Ref PN 771 .G27 v. 52
Goldman, Emma.
The Social Significance of the Modern Drama. [ Online ].
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A reprint of Goldman's 1914 letter to George Brandes Ibsen's views on government and political liberty. From the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE.
Hemmer, BjØrn.
The Dramatist: Henrik Ibsen . [Online].
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Professor Hemmer's essay deals with Ibsen's life and writing, with Ibsen the psychologist, with Ibsen's "long poetic contemplation of people's need to live differently than they do" and with the conflicts that therefore arise, with Ibsen's international breakthrough, with Ibsen's long study of stagecraft, and with the topical dramas "based on Ibsen's problematic relationship with his country of birth.".
International dictionary of theatre. Editor, Mark Hawkins-Dady; picture editor, Leanda Shrimpton. Chicago: St. James Press, c1992-
Brief essays, with bibliographies, on Ibsen and the play appear in the following volumes:
- Volume 1: Plays - "An Enemy of the People
- Volume 2: Playwrights - "Ibsen, Henrik (Johan)"
CALL NUMBER: Ref PN 2035 .I49 1992 -- v.1-3
McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of world drama: an international reference work in 5 volumes. Stanley Hochman, editor in chief. 2nd ed. New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill, 1984.
Includes an essay on Ibsen's life and work and short treatments of the major plays.
CALL NUMBER: Ref PN 1625 .M3 1984 -- v1-5
Roland, Perystein
Henrik Ibsen. By Perystein Roland and Marius Meyer. [Online]. Available:
Includes an essay on Ibsen's life and work and a chronology with links to The Ibsen Centre itself.
Dictionary of the history of ideas; studies of selected pivotal ideas. Philip P. Wiener, editor in chief.New York, N.Y.: Scribner, 1973-74.
Relevant articles shedding light on Ibsen include:
- Volume III - "Literature and its Cognates"
- Volume IV - "Tragic, Sense of the"
CALL NUMBER: Ref CB 5 .D52
Encyclopedia of applied ethics. Editor-in-chief, Ruth Chadwick. San Diego : Academic Press, c1998.
An extensive article puts the phenomenon of "Whistle-Blowing" into ethical perspective.
CALL NUMBER: Ref BJ 63 .E44 1998 -- v 1-4
Encyclopedia of bioethics. Warren T. Reich, editor in chief. Rev. ed. New York: Macmillan Pub. Co.: Simon & Schuster Macmillan; London : Prentice Hall International, c1995-
Relevant articles shedding light on Ibsen's world include:
- Volume 2 - "Health Officials and Their Responsibilities"
- Volume 3 - "Literature" and "Medical Ethics, History of: Europe"
CALL NUMBER: Ref QH 332 .E52 1995 -- v.1-5
The Encyclopedia of philosophy. Paul Edwards, editor in chief. New York, N.Y.: Macmillan, 1967.
The article on "Kierkegaard" should be useful as a foundation for understanding Ibsen's work.
CALL NUMBER: Ref B 41 .E5
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The Ibsen Centre Collection holds books by and about the playwright, Ibsen's personal book collection, clippings from various news sources, theater programs, AV materials, and photographs. There is an essay on his life and writing and chronology, plus a bibliography of Ibsen-related material (with plans for a searchable database). Links to other resources, including electronic texts of some of this plays, are predominantly in Norweigen..
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http://www.hf.uio.no/ibsensenteret/the_collection.html
Links to Internet resources from a wide range of periods, nationalities, and generes.
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Scholarly periodical databases give a researcher access to articles on specific subjects that have appeared in variety of periodicals. Such databases may cover a broad area of study the way Humanities Abstracts does. Others, such as MLA International Bibliography, focus more sharply. Most journal articles listed are written by scholars and aimed at other researchers in that field, making them particularly important research sources. Searching a database will give the researcher the bibliographic citation needed to identify and locate a specific work on a topic: author, title of article, journal title, volume and issue number, date, and pages. An abstract briefly summarizes an article's contents.
Some online databases--JSTOR, Wilson Select in FirstSearch, and Project Muse--include the full text of at least some of the articles online. Databases are accessable via the Library's Electronic Resources Page.
Relevant online databases for research on Ibsen include:
- Web of Science
- EBSCOhost -- includes full-text online retrieval for some articles
- MLA International Bibliography
OCLC FirstSearch Databases:
- Arts and Humanities Search -- citation index
- Humanities Abstracts
- WorldCat - books and other library materials
Last revised on July 18, 2007