ENG 4U
Ibsen Seminars: Resources
DIGITAL Resources
Gale Literature Resource Center York Mills subscription database contains biographies
of Ibsen and literary criticism and analysis of A Doll’s House.
http://ymcilibrary.wordpress.com/databases/ Password updated recently; check the
library posters or your updated agenda password list.
Jack Wolcott’s Theatre history on the Web Click “19th century” for Victorian links and
Victorian women links.
http://www.videoccasions-nw.com/history/jack.html
Centre for Ibsen Studies, Univ. of Oslo. This is perhaps THE online source for
biographical information.
http://www.hf.uio.no/ibsensenteret/research/links.html
Excerpt from Joan Templeton’s article “The Doll House Backlash: Criticism,
Feminism, and Ibsen” in PMLA. This includes some of Ibsen’s own commentary on the
issue of feminism.
http://www.jstor.org/pss/462329
Search for Ibsen: A Doll's House by Egil Törnqvist using Google Books. You may
want to use the table of contents to scroll to “Impact”, a chapter giving information about
the contemporary reaction to the play.
The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen by James Walter McFarlane is also available
online through Google Books. The chapter on “Ibsen & Feminism” might be especially
useful.
http://books.google.ca/books (search by title & author)
PRINT Resources
Greenhaven Literary Companion to A Doll’s House 839.8226 REA. This contains
numerous critical essays on A Doll’s House (themes, contexts, etc.)
Literature and Its Times, Vol. 3, REF 809 LIT A study of the historical and literary
context in which Ibsen wrote. This essay also details the profound effect A Doll’s House
had on society and literature of the time.
The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen 839.8226 CAM
Lives and Works in the Arts, Vol. 5, REF 700.922 LIV This contains a helpful overview
of Ibsen’s life and potential sources for the play.