links

A Dolls House:
https://www-digitaltheatreplus-com.myaccess.library.uto
ronto.ca/productions/a-dolls-house
Ghosts:
https://www-digitaltheatreplus-com.myaccess.library.uto
ronto.ca/productions/ghosts
Hedda:
https://vimeo.com/123407532

VPDP 11H3: Theatre

History II

Hedda
.

Matt Jones

mf.jones@mail.utoronto.c

Today
Pecha Kuchas
Ibsen
Hedda Gabler discussion
Quizzes returned

Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)

Born in Skein, Norway

Ibsen by Edvard Munch

Ibsen: 3 periods
1. Early plays:
Viking history
Poetic closet drama
Peer Gynt

Ibsen: 3 periods
1. Early plays:
Unsuccessful Viking history plays
Poetic closet drama
Peer Gynt

2. Social plays
A Dolls House, Ghosts, Enemy of the People

A Dolls House (1879)

Set design for Ghosts

by Edvard Munch (1906)

Ghosts
Soulpepper, 2011

Enemy of the People

Thomas Ostermeier, Berlin

Ibsen: 3 periods
1. Early plays
Unsuccessful Viking history plays
Poetic closet drama
Peer Gynt

2. Social plays
A Dolls House, Ghosts, Enemy of the People

3. Modern tragedies
Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder, When We Dead Awaken

Alla Nazimova as Hedda Gabler, 1907

Bourgeois values

Aristocratic values

Self-made

Saving money

Hard work for your pay

Empiricism

Intuition

Pragmatism

Idealism

Reason

Realism

Equality of all people

Family heritage

No work ever

Luxury

Spontaneity
Romanticism

Superiority of the few

Elizabeth Ross as Hedda,

Vaudeville Theatre, London, 1891

Hedda

Thea
Elvsted

Georg
e
Tesma
n

Eilert Lvborg

Dionysus

Judge Brack

Aunt Juliana

Objects

Readings:
Zarrilli et al, pp. 316-319

Hauptmann, The Weavers