About the Book
This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes.
This second set complements the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.
Table of Contents:
Introduction; NOTB ON THB TEXT; Chapter 1 Edmund Gosse on Ibsen' s poetry; Chapter 2 Edmund Gosse on Peer Gynt; Chapter 3 Edmund Gosse on Ibsen's elaborate irony; Chapter 4. Catherine Ray on the conflict in Ibsen's work; Chapter 5 Quicksands (The Pillars of Society); Chapter 6 Rasmus B. Anderson on Ibsen's genius1882; Chapter 7 Clemens Petersen on Ibsen and Björnson 1882; Chapter 8 Henrietta Frances Lord on A Doll' House1882; Chapter 9 William Archer on Mrs Lord' s imperfections and An Enemy of the PeopZe 1883; Chapter 10 Mrs Lord replies1883; Chapter 11 Kongsemnerne ( The Pretenders )1884; Chapter 12 Breaking a Butterjly (A Doll's House)S; Chapter 13 Havelock ElIis on the importance ofIbsen; Chapter 14 Gosse on Ibsen's Social Dramas; Chapter 15 Henry James becomes interested; Chapter 16 Arthur Symons on Ibsen's modernity; Part 1 A DOLL'S HOUSE; Chapter 17 An unsigned notice hy Clement Scott in the Daily Telegraph; Chapter 18 From an unsigned notice headlined ‘Henrik Ibsen in English’; Chapter 19 From ‘Flashes from the Footlights’, an unsigned regular theatre column, Licensed Victuallers' Mirror; Chapter 20 From ‘Between the Acts’, an unsigned regular theatre column; Chapter 21 From ‘Ibsen in London’, a notice by Frederic Wedmore; Chapter 22 C.H. Herford's reply to Wedmore's review of A Doll's House; Chapter 23 An unsigned notice, Spectator; Chapter 24 Clement Scott on Ibsen's unlovely creed; Chapter 25 William Archer on newspaper reaction to Ibsen; Chapter 26 Janet Achurch on the difficulty of being Nora; Part 2 THE PILLARS OF SOCIETY; Chapter 27 From an unsigned notice in the Daily News; Chapter 28 From an unsigned notice hy Clement Scott, the Daily Telegraph; Chapter 29 From an unsigned notice, the Daily Chronicle; Chapter 30 From an unsigned notice in the Referee; Chapter 31 From an unsigned notice, Lloyd's Weekly News; Chapter 32 Unsigned comment in the Hawk; Chapter 33 From ‘Ibsen Again’, a signed notice byFrederic Wedmore, the Academy; Chapter 34 From an unsigned notice in the Queen; Chapter 35 William Archer on the absurdity of Mr. T. Weber; Chapter 36 C. H. Herford on Rosmersholm and T he Lady from the Sea; Chapter 37 Hjalmar Boyesen presents an American view of Ibsen; Chapter 38 W. E. Simonds on Nora's selflessness; Chapter 39 E. P. Evans on Ibsen's cosmic emotion; Chapter 40 Mrs H. F. Lord on the phases of the soul in Ghosts; Chapter 41 Henry James on Ibsen's provinciality; Chapter 42 Edmund Gosse on Ibsen and American writers; Chapter 43 Emperor and Galilean; Chapter 44 An anonymous comment on the depravity of Ibsen, Edward A veling and Ghosts; Part 3 ROSMERSHOLM; Chapter 45 An unsigned notice in the Evening News and Post; Chapter 46 From an unsigned notice, Daily Chronicle; Chapter 47 Editorial comment, Daily Chronicle; Chapter 48 From an unsigned notice, The Times; Chapter 49 From‘An Ibsen Service’,unsignednotice Daily News; Chapter 50 From an unsigned notice hyClement Scott, Daily Telegraph; Chapter 51 From ‘Some Ibsenisms’, unsigned comment, Saturday Review; Chapter 52 From ‘Theatrical Gossip’, an unsigned regular column, Era; Chapter 53 From a pseudonymous notice hy ‘Momus’, GentZewom; Chapter 54 From an unsigned notice, Black and White; Chapter 55 Unsigned notice, Sunday Times; Chapter 56 From ‘Flashes from the Footlights’, anunsigned regular theatre column, Licensed VictuallersJ Mirror; Chapter 57 From ‘Ibsen Up to Date’, byustin Hunt1ey McCarthy, Hawk; Chapter 58 An unsigned notice, Truth, probably by Clement Scott; Chapter 59 From ‘Between the Acts’, an unsignedregular theatre column, Queen; Part 4 GHOSTS; Chapter 60 GHOSTS 60. George Moore sees Ghosts in Paris; Chapter 61 From an unsigned notice hy Clement Scott, Daily Telegraph; Chapter 62 Editorial comment, Daily Telegraph; Chapter 63 From an unsigned notice, Daily News; Chapter 64 From an unsigned notice, Daily Chronicle; Chapter 65 From an unsigned notice, Evening News and Post; Chapter 66 An anonymous satirical poem, Evening News and Post; Chapter 67 Ibsen and reallife; Chapter 68 From ‘Plays and Players’, an anonymous theatre column, Sunday Times; Chapter 69 An unsigned notice, Licensed Victuallers' Mirror; Chapter 70 From an unsigned notice, Hawk; Chapter 71 ‘How We Found Gibsen’, an anonymous satirical story, Hawk; Chapter 72 ‘Ghosts and Gibberings’, by William Archer, Pall Mall Gazette; Chapter 73 Ibsen speaks out; Chapter 74 Henry James on Ibsen's grey mediocrity; Part 5 HEDDA GABLER; Chapter 75 From an unsigned notice, The Times; Chapter 76 ‘An Ibsen Success— Hedda Gabler at the Vaudeville’, Pall Mall Gazette; Chapter 77 From a notice hy J?in McCarthy, Black and White; Chapter 78 An unsigned notice, Saturday Review; Chapter 79 A signed review by Clement Scott, Illustrated London News; Chapter 80 From an unsigned notice, Sunday Times; Chapter 81 An unsigned notice, Observer; Chapter 82 ‘Goldsmith and Ihsen/ A Dramatic Contrast’, an unsigned notice, People; Chapter 83 Henry Arthur Jones on the unfortunate depravity but enlivening infl.uence of Ibsen; Chapter 84 ‘On the Occasion of Hedda Gabler ’, hy Henry James, New Review; Part 6 THE LADY FROM THE SEA; Chapter 85 From an unsigned notice,; Chapter 86 From an unsigned notice,; Chapter 87 From an unsigned review hy Clement Scott,; Chapter 88 From an unsigned notice,; Chapter 89 An unsigned notice, Referee; Chapter 90 From a notice by Justin McCarthy, Hawk; Chapter 91 From an unsigned regular theatre gossip column, Hawk; Chapter 92 Ibsen parodied by J. M. Barrie; Part 7 BRAND; Chapter 93 From ‘Ibsen's Brand’, a long artic1e by Richard A. Armstrong, Westminster Review; Chapter 94 From an unsigned review of William Wilson's translation of Brand: A Dramatic Poem, Saturday Review; Chapter 95 George Bemard Shaw on thequintessence oflbsenism and its resemblance to Shavianism; Chapter 96 ‘Ihsen's New Play’, hy Henryames, Pall Mall Gazette; Chapter 97 An unsigned notice by Clement Scott, Daily Telegraph; Chapter 98 An unsigned notice, Evening News and Post; Chapter 99 From an unsigned notice, The Times; Chapter 100 From an unsigned notice, Standard; Chapter 101 An unsigned notice, Pall Mall Gazette; Chapter 102 An unsigned notice, Black and White; Chapter 103 From a pseudonymous theatre column by ‘Momus’, Gentlewoman; Chapter 104 A poem by William Hardinge, Observer; Chapter 105 ‘The Crack in the Flue’, a notice by ‘W.M.’, Hawk; Chapter 106 I0. The other Henrik Ibsen; Chapter 107 I0. An unsigned review, Saturday Review; Chapter 108 ‘Ibsen's Last Play’, an unsigned review, Spectator; Part 8 AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE; Chapter 109 From an unsigned notice, The Times; Chapter 110 0. From an unsigned notice by Clement Scott, Daily Telegraph; Chapter 111 From an unsigned notice, Daily Chronicle; Chapter 112 From an unsigned notice by ‘Momus’, Gentlewoman; Chapter 113 An unsigned notice, Theatre; Chapter 114 Wil1iam Archer sums it Up; Chapter 115 Mr. Gladstone as Solness; Chapter 116 II. Hjalmar Boyesen on Ibsen's sel-satire in The Wild Duck; Chapter 117 Ghosts in New York and Boston; Chapter 118 II. Ibsen consigned to hell in Boston; Part 9 THE WILD DUCK; Chapter 119 An unsigned notice hy Clement Scott, Daily Telegraph; Chapter 120 From an unsigned notice, Daily Chronicle; Chapter 121 From an unsigned notice, Evening News and Post; Chapter 122 From an unsigned notice, Truth; Chapter 123 From a pseudonymous notice hy ‘Hafiz’, Black and White; Chapter 124 From an unsigned notice, Era; Chapter 125 From an unsigned notice, Theatre; Chapter 126 An unsigned review of A Commentary on the Work of Henrik Ibsen, Spectator; Chapter 127 Herbert Waring: an actor's view of Ibsen; Chapter 128 Ibsen on himself—I; Chapter 129 Ibsen on himself—2; Part 10 LITTLE EYOLF; Chapter 130 From an unsigned review, Saturday Review; Chapter 131 From a signed review hy J. T. Grein, Sunday Times; Chapter 132 Unsigned notice, Pall Mall Gazette; Chapter 133 From an unsigned notice, The Times; Chapter 134 From an unsigned notice, Evening Standard; Chapter 135 From an unsigned notice, Daily News; Chapter 136 From an unsigned notice, hy Clement Scott, Daily Telegraph; Chapter 137 From an unsigned notice, Daily Chronicle; Chapter 138 ‘Ibsen and His Interpreters’, an editorial in Era; Chapter 139 An unsigned notice hy J. T. Grein, Sunday Times; Chapter 140 ‘The Hallucinations of Mr. Clement Scott’, a letter to the editor of the Saturday Review; Chapter 141 Henry James on Ibsen's superiority to Shakespeare; Part 11 JOHN GABRIEL BORKMAN; Chapter 142 An unsigned review, Saturday Review; Chapter 143 From a review by Henry James, Harper's Weekly; Chapter 144 From a notice hy ‘H.W.M.’, Daily Chronicle; Chapter 145 From an unsigned notice hy Clement Scott, Daily Telegaph; Chapter 146 From an unsigned notice, Era; Chapter 147 From an unsigned notice, Lloyd's Weekly News; Chapter 148 From an unsigned notice, People; Chapter 149 George Bernard Shaw on A DoU's House; Chapter 150 From an unsigned notice, Theatre; Chapter 151 Bernard Shaw watches Queen Victoria and the Archbishop of Canterbury watch; Chapter 152 Hedda Gabler in New York; Chapter 153 James Joyce, artide in Fortnightly Review; Chapter 154 From an unsigned notice, Daily Telegraph; Chapter 155 From an unsigned notice, Daily Chronicle; Chapter 156 An unsigned notice, The Times; Chapter 157 From an unsigned notice, Sunday Times; Chapter 158 From an unsigned notice, Lloyd' s Weekly News; Chapter 159 An unsigned notice, Refree; Chapter 160 I60. From ‘Ibsen’ s “E pilogue ” by ‘Max’[Beerbohm} Saturday Review; Chapter 161 From a pseudonymous notice hy ‘Momus’, Gentlewoman; Part 12 THE VIKINGS AT HELGELANDg; Chapter 162 From an unsigned notice, Daiiy Telegraph; Chapter 163 From a long unsigned notice, Daily Chronicle; Chapter 164 From an unsigned notice, The Times; Chapter 165 An unsigned notice, Referee; Chapter 166 A notice by Max Beerbohm, Saturday Review; Chapter 167 W. Rothenstein on Max Beerbohm's obtuseness; Chapter 168 P. T. Barnum and others cable Ibsen; Part 13 THE COLLECTED LETTERS OF HENRIK IBSEN; Chapter 169 THE COLLECTED LETTERS OF HENRIK IBSEN. From ‘ Ihsen in His Letters’, hy William Archer, Fortnightly Review; Part 14 THE WILD DUCK; Chapter 170 From a pseudonymous notice hy‘Mordred’, Referee; Chapter 171 From unsigned theatre comment, Referee; Part 15 AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE; Chapter 172 From an initialled notice hy E. A. B[aughan, Daily News; Chapter 173 Keir Hardie on the instructiveness of Ibsen; Part 16 LADY INGER OF ÖSTRAAT; Chapter 174 From an initial1ed notice hy E. A. B[aughan, Daily News; Chapter 175 From an unsigned notice, Black and White; Part 17 OBITUARIES; Chapter 176 From an unsigned obituary, Academy; Chapter 177 Max Beerbohm, Saturday Review; Chapter 178 From W. D. Howells's obituary in North American Review; Chapter 179 ‘Ibsen as an Interpreter of AmericanLife’, by Edwin E. Slosson, Independent; Chapter 180 ‘Playing Ibsen in the Badlands’, by Joseph P. Dannenburg, Theatre;
About the Author :
Michael Egan
