Ibsen And Realism
Ibsen and Realism
The four dramas Ibsen published in the years 1877-82, Pillars of Society, A Doll`s House, Ghosts and An Enemy of the People are characterised as realistic contemporary dramas or problem dramas.
In the main there are four aspects of these plays that justify such a description:
1. They make problems in society the subject of debate.
2. They have a socio-critical perspective.
3. The action is in a contemporary setting.
4. They present everyday people and situations.
Problems under debate
The Danish literary critic Georg Brandes (1842-1927) was the great pioneer of the breakthrough of realism in the Nordic countries. In 1871 he gave a series of lectures at the University of Copenhagen under the title "Main Currents in the Literature of the 19th Century" (published in book form in six volumes 1872-90). In this work Brandes puts forward the following manifesto for a new form of literature that is to be socio-critical and realistic:
That literature in our......
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