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Henrik Ibsen
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"A Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen is a groundbreaking and thought-provoking masterpiece that challenges societal norms and explores the complex dynamics of marriage and identity. Set in 19th-century Norway, the play revolves around Nora Helmer, a seemingly content wife and mother, and her husband Torvald.
As the plot unfolds, the audience is drawn into a web of secrets, lies, and personal revelations. Nora's journey from a docile, doll-like existence...
2) Four plays
Author
Publisher
Franklin Library
Pub. Date
c1979.
Language
English
Description
With an Introduction by Ellen Rees, Centre for Ibsen Studies, University of Oslo. The plays of Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) are critically acclaimed throughout the world. The father of modern drama, Ibsen broke with theatrical conventions and created a more realistic form of drama that used the stage as a forum for debating social problems, notably the rights of the individual, and the damaging effects of orthodoxy. This collection...
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fearing rejection by her community, Helene Alving stayed with her philandering husband up until his death. She finds out that her son Osvald not only has congenital syphilis, but is in love with the maid without knowing she is his half-sister. Eventually Mrs. Alving must face the cruel choice of euthanizing her own son as he descends into a syphilitic madness. As with Ibsen's A Doll's House, Ghosts was an intentionally controversial
...Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen wrote An Enemy of the People in 1882 as a response to the public outrage over his play Ghosts. Part comedy, part serious drama, the play looks at Dr. Thomas Stockmann's struggle to uphold the truth in the face of intolerance and willful ignorance, as his entire community turns against him. Branded an "Enemy of the People," Dr. Stockmann can only take solace in the idea that "the strongest man in the
...Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen's play Hedda Gabler was first published in 1890. Despite premiering the next year to negative reviews, the play since been hailed as a classic work of realism, with the character Hedda being considered by some critics as one of the great dramatic roles; a female Hamlet. Gabler is actually the character's maiden name rather than her name by marriage (which is Hedda Tesman); on entitling it this Ibsen wrote:
...12) Hedda Gabler
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Swedish
Description
Set in an anonymous corner of suburbia, this contemporary adaptation of Ibsen's play is a shattering exploration of ambition, domestic power and gender roles. Just married, Hedda Gabler and her husband arrive at their new home where Hedda's romantic rival from the past appears. Hedda must confront her desire for a life lived beautifully and without compromise - whatever the cost. This bracing dramatization brings new dimensions to Hedda Gabler's character....
13) A doll's house
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Nora is sheltered first by her father and then by her husband. All her life, she has been protected like a fragile possession ... like a doll in a doll's house. After she marries, Nora becomes frustrated, realizes that under the dominance of her husband she will never have an identity of her own, and leaves to find a new life for herself.
14) The daughter
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When he returns home to Australia for his father's wedding, a man uncovers uncomfortable family secrets.
15) Sārā =: Sara
Publisher
Irmovies.com
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Persian
Description
Film based on Ibsen's classic play A doll's house has been adapted and set in modern Iran. Sara is the perfect young housewife, eager to serve. When husband Hessam requires an expensive emergency operation abroad, it is she who arranges the funds. For the next three years Sara labours secretly to pay the shady loan and save Hessam's manly pride. Then the truth is revealed and with it, the reality of her marriage.
Series
Henrik Ibsen collection volume Disc 5
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
For years, Mrs. Alving has, for appearance's sake, endured a loveless marriage to a dissolute and drunken man. She even sent her only son away from home so that he would not be corrupted by his father. But despite (or, ironically, perhaps because of) her efforts, the ghosts of the past and resurrected as her son reappears, the obvious heir to his father's sins and excesses.
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
A man there was (1917): During the Napoleonic Wars, a fisherman tries to break through a British blockade to feed his starving family.
Ingeborg Holm (1913): A reflection on Sweden's harsh poor laws, a young widowed mother, Ingeborg Holm, is sent to a workhouse and her children are taken away. After she learns that her daughter is gravely ill, Ingeborg tries to see her and goes mad with grief when she dies.
18) Ghosts
Series
Henrik Ibsen collection volume Disc 2
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Captain Alving was a respected man in his community, and on the tenth anniversary of his death, Mrs. Alving is preparing for the opening of an orphange in his honor. This effort, however, is really an attempt by Mrs. Alving to mask her hidden disgust with Captain Alving who in reality was a cheating, immoral philanderer who bequeathed a deadly legacy to his son Oswald.
Series
Henrik Ibsen collection volume Disc 3
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
An enemy of the people (originally aired on BBC, 2 February 1980): Dr. Stockmann, whose single voice of reason is drowned out by those with paranoid and ulterior interests.
The wild duck (originally aired on BBC, 21 March 1971): A family with a proximity to each other belies the decay of their relationships. When Gregors Werle comes to stay with the Ekdals, his idealist nature refuses to tolerate the dreamworld of lies the family is living. However,...
20) Ganashatru
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Bengali
Description
In Satyajit Ray's absorbing contemporary adaptation of a play by Henrik Ibsen, a good-hearted doctor discovers that the serious illness befalling the citizens of his small Bengali town may be due to a contamination of the holy water at the local temple.