Chapter 3. Embodying Writing: Ibsen and Parks
Published Online: 15 JAN 2010
DOI: 10.1002/9781444317374.ch3
Copyright © 2010 W. B. Worthen
Book Title
Drama: Between Poetry and Performance
Additional Information
How to Cite
Worthen, W. B. (2010) Embodying Writing: Ibsen and Parks, in Drama: Between Poetry and Performance, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781444317374.ch3
Publication History
- Published Online: 15 JAN 2010
- Published Print: 18 DEC 2009
ISBN Information
Print ISBN: 9781405153416
Online ISBN: 9781444317374
- Summary
- Chapter
Keywords:
- embodying writing - Ibsen and Parks;
- dramatic writing - cannot determine its performance;
- Late-nineteenth-century naturalistic drama - often melodramatic in structure;
- Commentaries, long noticing the vague, aspirational quality of politics in Rosmersholm;
- Dr. Kroll, startlingly aggressive figure in the play;
- confession, disclosure, detour;
- Rosmersholm - foregrounding words as instruments for exposing motive, character, interiority;
- Ibsen sets Rosmer's first invocation of “innocence” – skyldfrihed, being free from guilt;
- footnoting performance - The America Play and Venus;
- concealed power of archive – “Footnotes” spoken onstage in Venus – into repertoire of performance
Summary
This chapter contains sections titled:
Can We Act What We Say?: Rosmersholm
Footnoting Performance: The America Play and Venus