#ibsen

She looked like something that might have occured to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#humor #ibsen #moroseness #sombre-mood #unhappiness

I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics. ↗

— Harvey Korman

#classics #hamlet #i #ibsen #played

Nevertheless the severance is rather casual and it drops a stain on our admiration of Nora. Ibsen has put the leaving of her children on the same moral and emotional level as the leaving of her husband and we cannot, in our hearts, asssent to that. It is not only the leaving but the way the play does not have time for suffering, changes of heart. Ibsen has been too much a man in the end. He has taken the man's practice, if not his stated belief, that where self-realization is concerned children shall not be an impediment. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

#feminsim #ibsen #motherhood #writing #change

So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be a Shakespeare, or an Ibsen, or a play by a brand new writer who had never done anything in the theater before. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#before #brand #brand new #career #done

I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was really inspired by all those guys. That's when writing became a primary focus. ↗

— Kurt Sutter

#classics #exposed #focus #great #guys

The social world of Ibsen’s plays is greatly restricted, enclosed in a narrow frame, cut off by the very geography of Norway; the long, dark winters make for social repetition…Everyone else you know is right there, so to speak. This small-town life has moral consequences always; the players live with the threat of trouble over the most petty matters. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

#life

A Doll’s House is about money, about the way it turns locks. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

#ibsen #money

Ibsen was Norwegian by birth, but universal in spirit. ↗

— Liv Ullmann

#ibsen #norwegian #spirit #universal

You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen. ↗

— Mandy Patinkin

#ibsen #pay #rarely #rent #shakespeare