Ibsen Cycle: The Design of the Plays from Pillars of Society to When We Dead Awaken

by Brian Johnston

Contents 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 II 4. Archetypal Repetition in Ghosts 189 5. The Dialectic of Rosmersholm 237 6. Death and Transfiguration in The Master Builder 289 Ibsen and Modernism 353 Appendix 1: Ghosts 376 Appendix 2: Rosmersholm 380 Appendix 3: The Master Builder 390 Selected Bibliography 397 Index 404

432 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1975

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