AO5 Flashcards
(16 cards)
Who has argued that each act is organised around a specific crisis, bringing around an anagnorisis and a peripeteia?
Brian Johnston
What did Brian Johnston argue about the miracles?
It has a different meaning in each act, so that the earlier meaning of the word is progressively deconstructed and replaced
What has Toril Moi stated about the men during the tarantella?
‘Their gaze de-souls her and turns her into a mechanic doll’
What did Edmund Goose describe A Doll’s House as?
‘Really a domestic family drama, dealing with contemporary problems in regard to marriage’
Mona Caird argued that ‘common respectable marriage’ was what?
‘The most hypocritical form of woman-purchase’
Who argued that ‘the economical independence of woman is the first condition of free marriage’?
Mona Caird
Who coined the phrase ‘New Woman’ in 1894?
Sarah Grand
“Death of Henrik Ibsen” Obituary, The Guardian: 26th May 1906.
‘Ibsen appalled us with sudden glimpses into the abysses of human nature’
What has Ibsen stated he is writing for?
‘the cause of human beings’, his ‘task [being to] portray human beings’
What did Clement Scott say which will be good to bring up for Nora’s infantilisation?
‘Nora is Torvald’s baby wife’
George Bernard Shaw, a socialist Irish play write, stated that ‘For Ibsen the slavery of today is
slavery to ideals of virtue’
1891
Ibsen has stated that he will do what for the ‘transformation of society [for] workers and women’
‘work all my life with all my might’
What did Eleanor Marx feel the ‘miracle’ was?
‘Marxist change with it’s promise of economic and intellectual emancipation for women and workers alike’
What did Eleanor Marx state about socialist revolution?
‘without the larger Socialist revolution women will never be free’
‘Chastain exits not into the wings but directly out a lifted garage door at the back of the theatre’ in what production?
2023 by Jamie Lloyd
the Evening Standard
‘morbid and unwholesome play’
