A Global Doll'S House: Ibsen And Distant Visions (Palgrave Studies In Performance And Technology)

This book addresses a deceptively simple question: what accounts for the global success of A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen’s most popular play? Using maps, networks, and images to explore the world history of the play’s production, this question is considered from two angles: cultural transmission and adaptation. Analysing the play’s transmission reveals the social, economic, and political forces that have secured its place in the canon of world drama; a comparative study of the play’s 135-year production history across five continents offers new insights into theatrical adaptation. Key areas of research include the global tours of nineteenth-century actress-managers, Norway’s soft diplomacy in promoting gender equality, representations of the female performing body, and the sexual vectors of social change in theatre.

• | Author: Julie Holledge, Jonathan Bollen, Frode Helland, Joanne Tompkins
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: April 21, 2021
• | Number of Pages: 248 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1349683787
• | ISBN-13: 9781349683789