{"product_id":"shaws-ibsen-joan-templeton-9781137543417","title":"Shaw's Ibsen: A Re-Appraisal","description":"This book argues that Shaw was a masterful reader of Ibsen's plays both as texts and as the cornerstone of the modern theatre. Dismantling the notion that Shaw distorted Ibsen to promote his own view of the world, and establishing Shaw's initial interest in Ibsen as the poet of \u003ci\u003ePeer Gynt, \u003c\/i\u003eit chronicles Shaw's important role in the London Ibsen campaign and exposes the falsity of the tradition that Shaw branded Ibsen as a socialist. Further, this study shows that Shaw's famous but maligned \u003ci\u003eThe Quintessence of Ibsenism\u003c\/i\u003e reflects Ibsen's own anti-idealist notion of his work and argues that Shaw's readings of Ibsen's plays are pioneering analyses that anticipate later criticism. It offers new readings of Shaw's \"Ibsenist\" plays as well as a comprehensive account of Ibsen's importance for Shaw's dramatic criticism, from his early journalism to \u003ci\u003eOur Theatres of the Nineties\u003c\/i\u003e, both as a weapon against the inanities of the Victorian stage and asthe standard bearer for modernism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joan Templeton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1137543418\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781137543417\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/17\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 359\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.56h x 6.39w x 1.02d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2018","brand":"Joan Templeton","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48087675109631,"sku":"9781137543417","price":139.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8df11ce4-5b19-47fa-b07b-58a1a38910fb.jpg?v=1769100775","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shaws-ibsen-joan-templeton-9781137543417","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}