playwright‚ theatre director‚ and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of realism" and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre. His major works include Brand‚ Peer Gynt‚ An Enemy of the People‚ Emperor and Galilean‚ A Doll’s House‚ Hedda Gabler‚ Ghosts‚ The Wild Duck‚ Rosmersholm‚ and The Master Builder. He is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare‚ and indeed‚ A Doll’s House is the world’s most performed play. Several of his plays were considered scandalous
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Cited: Ibsen‚ Henrik. Hedda Gabler. The Norton Introduction to Literature. Trans. Michael Meyer. Third Edition. New York: Norton‚ 1981. 1443-1507.
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Tragedy in the Modern Age: A Short Note Arpan Adhikary The genre of tragedy as a form of dramatic art developed in the ancient Greece out of the ritualistic performances in the honour of the pagan deity Dionysus. Aristotle formulated his theory of tragedy on basis of the plays composed by the then Greek tragedians like Aeschylus‚ Euripides and Sophocles‚ and he regarded these plays as the most comprehensive instances of this genre. Plays by Roman tragedian Seneca‚ and those by such Elizabethan
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1 Annexure ‘I’ M.A. English Part-I & II The Appendix ‘A’ (Outlines of Tests) and Appendix ‘B’ (Syllabi & Courses of Reading for M.A. English Part-I and Part-II shall be effective from the Session 2002-2003. The class admitted in the year 2002 will take their M.A. English Part-I Examination of 2003 according to new syllabus in the year 2003: - M.A. (English) Part I Examination of 2003 Appendix ‘A’ (Outlines of Tests) Marks Paper I (Classical Poetry) Paper II (Drama) Paper III (Novel) Paper
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Subject : Drama B Writer : Henrik Johan Ibsen Genre : Realistic Modern Drama Name of the Work / Play : A Doll’s House ( 1897 ) in three acts Characters : Major Characters / Minor Characters Nora Helmer ( wife of Torvald Helmer ‚mother of three children ) Torvald Helmer( husband of Nora Helmer ‚ a lawyer ‚father of three children ) Dr. Rank ( doctor ‚friend of Nora & Torvald Helmer‚ confidant ‚commentator ) Mrs. Kristine Linde ( old friend of Nora Helmer ) Nils Krogstad ( barrister
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AP ENGLISH LIT AND COMP FREE RESPONSE QUESTIONS 2004 (Form A): Critic Roland Barthes has said‚ “Literature is the question minus the answer.” Choose a novel or play and‚ considering Barthes’ Observation‚ write an essay in which you analyze a central question the work raises and the extent to which it offers any answers. Explain how the author’s treatment of this question affects your understanding of the work as a whole. Avoid mere plot summary. You may select a work from the list below or another
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After Reading Activities ........................................................................................19 I. Topics For Discussion And Essays .............................................................19 II. Connecting To The Wild Duck‚ Hedda Gabler‚ and The Master Builder ....20 III. Group And Individual Projects ...............................................................21 About the Author of This Guide ..........................................................................26 About
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9 April‚ 2014 Technology: Is it Damaging the Way we Think? Senior fellow at the Annenberg Norman Lear Center at the University of Southern California and the author of Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination‚ Neal Gabler‚ in his article “The Elusive Big Idea‚” published by The New York Times (2011)‚ argues that due to technology the development of new ideas and thought are of little value to society. He supports his claim by doing the following: first; introducing the idea that society
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The realistic impulse‚ the desire to reproduce on stage a piece of life faithfully has been persistent over the last hundred years. However reaction against the theatre of psychological realism and of ordinary speech and behaviour was also relentless throughout the twentieth century. In order to explore any form theatre‚ it is important to understand the historical‚ political‚ social and cultural perspective of the time in which the piece is created. Through the turn of the 19th century‚ “a period
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