{"product_id":"to-the-third-empire-ibsens-early-drama-9780816657988","title":"To the Third Empire: Ibsen's Early Drama","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Brian Johnston\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Drama\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo the Third Empire\u003c\/i\u003e was first published in 1980. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCritical acclaim greeted Brian Johnston's 1975 book on Ibsen's final phase, \u003ci\u003eThe Ibsen Cycle. Choice\u003c\/i\u003e called it \"the single most provocative and critically exciting books of Ibsen criticism in decades.\" Johnston now turns his attention to the early works, using the same thematic premise - that the plays follow a clear progression, influenced by the Hegalian aesthetic that pervaded Europe in the mid-nineteenth century. The result is an explanation of the early career that demonstrates both its unity and its essential relation to the realistic cycle that followed. In advancing his argument Johnston provides close readings of ten plays, ranging from \u003ci\u003eCataline\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eEmperor and Galilean\u003c\/i\u003e and including \u003ci\u003eBrand\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePeer Gynt. Scholars\u003c\/i\u003e and students of drama, comparative literature, and Ibsen studies will find \u003ci\u003eTo the Third Empire\u003c\/i\u003e an essential work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47615384191127,"sku":"9780816657988","price":6938.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780816657988.webp?v=1775100433","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/to-the-third-empire-ibsens-early-drama-9780816657988","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}