Ibsen's women - Joan Templeton

This is a comprehensive study of the women in Ibsen's plays. It provides a close reading of the texts and a reexamination of the critical tradition on Ibsen's women, including the much-debated question of the playwright's relation to feminism. Templeton traces patterns of gender throughout Ibsen's work, analyzing the women of the lesser-known early plays, from "Catiline" through "Love's Comedy", as precursors of later, famous women like Nora Helmer of "A Doll House" and Hedda Gabler. Templeton also reexamines how the women in Ibsen's life influenced the women in the plays, and offers new information on and a new reading of Ibsen's relation with the young women of his later years. The book contains photographs of important women in Ibsen's life as well as of prominent actresses in the major roles.