Saturday, March 05, 2005

Architecture of a doll's house

Brian Johnston's Realism and A Doll House at his ibsen voyages site, is an indispensible formal analysis of the play -- illuminating and fine-tuned to Ibsen's artistic mastery. Johnston's site gives voice to his original thesis that Ibsen's 12 mature "realistic dramas" constitute an epic dramatic cycle. They can be read as an interlocking tripartite superwork, on the order of Wagner's Ring cycle, the Divine Comedy, and the ambitious achievments of modernist literature. Intriguing, to say the least.

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