Book contents
- Ibsen in Context
- Ibsen in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Notes on the text
- Chronology
- Part I Life and Career
- Part II Culture and Society
- Part III Scandinavian Reception
- Part IV Internationalization
- Chapter 17 Copyright
- Chapter 18 Censorship
- Chapter 19 German Reception
- Chapter 20 British Reception
- Chapter 21 French Reception
- Chapter 22 Parodies
- Chapter 23 Early Globalization
- Part V Afterlives
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 23 - Early Globalization
from Part IV - Internationalization
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 April 2021
- Ibsen in Context
- Ibsen in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Notes on the text
- Chronology
- Part I Life and Career
- Part II Culture and Society
- Part III Scandinavian Reception
- Part IV Internationalization
- Chapter 17 Copyright
- Chapter 18 Censorship
- Chapter 19 German Reception
- Chapter 20 British Reception
- Chapter 21 French Reception
- Chapter 22 Parodies
- Chapter 23 Early Globalization
- Part V Afterlives
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
This chapter portrays Ibsen as a world dramatist with commercial productions touring five continents between 1889 and 1916. These productions travelled on the well-established commercial theatre touring circuits of the late nineteenth century that used the shipping, rail and road networks of trade routes that linked European nations with their colonial settlements and diasporas. This early distribution of Ibsen's plays is visualized in the chapter using data from IbsenStage (https://ibsenstage.hf.uio.no), the online database that holds 23,604 production records of Ibsen’s plays. At the heart of this chapter are the stories of the star actors who played Ibsen’s characters on their international touring circuits to show off their virtuoso skills.
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- Ibsen in Context , pp. 200 - 212Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021