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Minnie Maddern Fiske: The Imperfect Ibsenite

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2010

Clifford Ashby
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Extract

A great legend has evolved about Minnie Maddern Fiske and her relation to Ibsenian drama, a legend which pictures her as a fearless, dedicated proponent of naturalism in the theatre, as an actress cast in an entirely new mould. As early as 1910, Walter Prichard Eaton wrote: “With that new drama and the consequent new methods of acting she at once identified herself, and she has remained their earnest champion and inspiring advocate.”

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Research Article
Information
Theatre Survey , Volume 4 , May 1963 , pp. 41 - 50
Copyright
Copyright © American Society for Theatre Research 1963

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NOTES

1. “Mrs. Fiske and Her Influence on the American Stage,” Century Magazine, LXXXIV (1910), 866.

2. October 6, 1903.

3. New York Tribune, October 20, 1903.

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5. Fiske, Minnie Maddern, “The Matter of the Play,” International Monthly (May, 1902), 236.Google Scholar

6. Ibid., 244.

7. Fiske, Minnie Maddern, “Ibsen's Influence on the Drama,” Theatre Magazine, II (December, 1902), 28.Google Scholar Both Mrs. Fiske and her husband, Harrison Grey Fiske, were close friends of William Winter, archenemy of Ibsen. At the time this article appeared, Mrs. Fiske was appearing in Winter's translation of Paul Heyse's Mary of Magdala.

8. February 16, 1894.

9. New York Tribune, December 27, 1905.

10. Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on the Stage (New York: The Century Co., 1917), pp. 57–58.

11. Ibid., p. 42.

12. Ibid., pp. 42–43.

13. Griffith, Frank Carlos, Mrs. Fiske (New York: The Neal Publishing Co., 1912), p. 17.Google Scholar

14. New York Tribune, October 20, 1903.

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18. The Critic, XXVII (March 13, 1897), 185.

19. Archer, William, “The American Stage: II,” Pall Mall Magazine, XIX (December, 1899), 475.Google Scholar

20. Strang, II, 298–99.

21. Ibid.

22. Theatre Magazine, III (November, 1903), 268.

23. Eaton, 867.

24. Wooll-cott, pp. 63–64.

25. Towse, John Ranken, Sixty Years of Theatre (New York: Funk & Wagnalls Co., 1916), pp. 412–413.Google Scholar

26. New York Times, January 20, 1907.

27. Archer, 475.

28. New York Times, February 16, 1894.

29. New York Times, October 6, 1903.

30. New York Times, January 16, 1927.

31. New York Times, February 16, 1894.

32. Tyrrell, 250.

33. New York Tribune, October 20, 1903.

34. Griffith, pp. 83–84.