O'Neill and Camille: Domestic Drama in “The Web” and “Recklessness” by Thomas F. Connolly

“…The plays also draw on the influence of Dumas’ La dame aux camélias, O’Neill was been influenced by Ibsen and Strindberg in his later works, but these plays reveal these influences from the start. …”
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A Textual and Contextual Reading of Selected Dialogic Texts: A Doll’s House by Ömer Şžekerci

“…The paper aims to examine the textual and contextual aspects of dialogic texts in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (1879). Drama text is actually a play in which a conversation is carried out by characters about a topic. …”
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An Outsider’s Eye: The Art of Designing for Theatre by Joe Vaněk

“…Choosing key performances of European plays (Brecht, Ibsen) adapted by Irish writers, Vaněk takes us through the thought processes and work practices that bring a play from page to stage, with descriptions and photographs to illustrate his design choices and thinking. …”
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Il mulo di Lessing by Franco Perrelli

“…Lessing’s analysis had an important and documented influence on the modern theatre: here, we can find a Sophoclean approach (Ibsen) and an Euripidean approach to the drama. In particular, the Euripidean line is developed in Strindberg’s epic dramaturgy and, in all its evidence, in Brecht.…”
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Gynter Grass bald anders: taking the self out of autobiography in Grass’s Beim Häuten der Zwiebel by Gwyer, K

“…However, it will be argued here that the full import of Simplicissimus emerges only when considered in conjunction with another, rather less closely examined source text, Ibsen’s Peer Gynt (1867), whose eponymous protagonist furnishes the image of the self as alliaceous construct of layers without a core that also informs Grass’s own use of the onion trope. …”

"Ne me touchez pas!": Transgressions décadentes d’une parole biblique by Guy Ducrey

“…From Balzac onwards, Jesus' sentence to Mary Magdalene after his resurrection ("Do not touch me") is used on stage (Ibsen, Maeterlinck, Lorrain, Sardou, D'Annunzio) or by novelists (Rachilde) in the context of an encounter between the living and the dead. …”
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Massimo Castri, un regista-professore by Roberto Alonge

“…A practice well exemplified by the books published by Castri on Pirandello and Ibsen, two of the authors who return most frequently in the director’s choices, together with Euripides and Goldoni. …”
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Nordic Modernists in the Circus. On the Aesthetic Reflection of a Transcultural Institution by Annegret Heitmann

“…When writers like Henrik Ibsen, Herman Bang, Ola Hansson and Johannes V. Jensen referred to the circus in their works, they represented it as an experience of modernity and addressed themes like alterity, mobility, voyeurism, new gender relations and ambivalent emotions. …”
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Toward a collaborative, collective and integrative international CBRN security education: coordination of international policy initiatives on biological security education [speech] by Shang, Lijun

“…It also aimed to deliberate on means of implementing the International Biological Security Education Network (IBSEN) in preparation of the BWC 2024 Meeting of States Parties. …”
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En tiempos de atribulación social y moral by Augusto Escobar Mesa

“…En una pieza de teatro de Henrik Ibsen titulada Un enemigo del pueblo, escrita en 1882, el dramaturgo noruego pone en escena una historia cotidiana pero sugerente en la que revela lo que hasta entonces había pasado siempre. …”
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Literary Works Empowering Social Movements: A Doll's House & Bumi Manusia Analysis in Norwegian-Indonesian Feminism by R. Hariyani Susanti

“…By comparing two literary works, A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen and Bumi Manusia by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, the article investigates the impact of literature on the first wave of the feminist movement in Norway in 1879 and the portrayal of women's conditions in Indonesia at the time. …”
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"My petticoat encumbrances"; the 'female adventurer' and the north by Kathryn Walchester

“…Focussing on the northern travelogues of two women travellers from the late nineteenth century, Ethel Brilliana Tweedie’s A Winter Jaunt to Norway: with Accounts of Nansen, Ibsen, Bjornson, Brandes, and Many Others and Polar Gleams; an Account of a Voyage on the Yacht ‘Blencathra’ by Helen Peel, this article suggests that rather than presenting a polarized gendered perspective of Arctic travel, in their writing Peel and Tweedie negotiate between masculine and feminine-coded associations in order to legitimate and popularize their travels, whilst remaining within the conventions of Victorian femininity.  …”
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Suffering Daughters and Wives. Sentimental Themes in Finnish and Nordic Realism by Saija Isomaa

“…A Doll’s House (1879) by Henrik Ibsen centers on the theme of conflicting duties, depicting the moral awakening of a doll-like wife, and Papin rouva (1893, ‘The Wife of a Clergyman’) by Juhani Aho concentrates on the sufferings and moral considerations of the unhappily married Elli. …”
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Dual Faith of Evgeny Ivanov: To the Study of the Role of Vera F. Komissarzhevskaya in the History of Symbolist Life Creating by Olga L. Fetisenko

“…It is the history of his long-term worship of Vera Komissarzhevskaya, which influenced not only the formation of his worldview but also his work (first of all, his unfinished articles about H. Ibsen’s female characters, about the high destiny of theatre actors, about religious faith). …”
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La novella dannunziana e la sua vocazione alla scena by Puppa, Paolo

“…It follows that silent cinema and great melodrama could only make these elements more explicit ― and here one can find a true legacy from Ibsen. The furious reaction of Catholics to the performance of La nave at La Fenice in Venice in 1908 was due to its most transgressive message: the juxtaposition of the prayers to the Holy Virgin Mary and the hymn to the goddess Venus. …”
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Kabaret, det revolusjonære og poetiske by Knut Ove Arntzen

“…A monumental realism had already established itself as a Norwegian directing style in connection with the Ibsen-tradition at Nationaltheatret, where Johanne Dybwad was a prominent figure. …”
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BOOK REVIEW: MAJA LUNDE, “ISTORIA ALBINELOR (BIENES HISTORIE)”, TRADUCERE DE SANDA TOMESCU BACIU, BUCUREȘTI, EDITURA HUMANITAS FICTION, 2019, 384 P. by Adriana-Narcisa BÂRLĂDEAN

“…She has translated a number of Norwegian authors into Romanian such as Henrik Ibsen, Lars Saabye Christensen and Knut Hamsun. Regarding this translation, it gives the Romanian public the opportunity to encounter with a novel of high magnitude internationally, as being sold in millions of copies and published in over 35 countries. …”
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BOOK REVIEW: MAJA LUNDE, “ISTORIA ALBINELOR (BIENES HISTORIE)”, TRADUCERE DE SANDA TOMESCU BACIU, BUCUREȘTI, EDITURA HUMANITAS FICTION, 2019, 384 P. by Adriana-Narcisa BÂRLĂDEAN

“…She has translated a number of Norwegian authors into Romanian such as Henrik Ibsen, Lars Saabye Christensen and Knut Hamsun. Regarding this translation, it gives the Romanian public the opportunity to encounter with a novel of high magnitude internationally, as being sold in millions of copies and published in over 35 countries. …”
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„Matka” Witkacego: Tragedia rodzinna – zagłada człowieczeństwa w człowieku by Lech Sokół

“…Witkacy himself confirms the adequacy of classifying The Mother as a family drama by openly using other family dramas in his play: Ibsen’s Ghosts and Strindberg’s The Ghost Sonata. …”
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TRANSLATION. EVALUATION. INTERPRETATION. COMPARATIVE AND IDENTITY STUDIES by Sanda TOMESCU BACIU, Oana Aurelia GENCĂRĂU

“…The literary research showcased in a couple of articles - from Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg to emblematic contemporary writers - reflects the preoccupations of Romanian academics representing the educational environment provided by specific bachelor programmes offered by Babeş-Bolyai University and the University of Bucharest, for the comprehensive field of Scandinavian Studies. …”
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