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figures.Hisconquest of the theatre over the past hundred years-first in Scandinavia,andthen very quickly in Europe,North America and the wider world-makes himone of the most frequently performed playwrights in the world today.  \nThe sixteen chapters of this Companion,contributed by a distinguishedinternational team,explore Ibsen's life and work,providing an invaluablereference work for students of drama and of literature.In chronological termsthey range from an account of Ibsen's earliest pieces,written during the I85oswhen he was a young producer in Bergen,through the years of richexperiment-ation when he sought-in historical tragedy,in verse comedy,in dramaticpoetry,in philosophical drama-to find his own style and dramatic idiom,tothe mature 'Ibsenist'plays that made him famous towards the end of thenineteenth century.  \nAmong the thematic topics explored here are Ibsen and comedy,Ibsen andthe realistic problem play,and Ibsen and feminism.Another little-knownaspect of his art-his achievement as alyricpoet-is given close attention.Twochapters accountfor the spread of Ibsen'sinfluenceon theinternational stagetothe end of the nineteenth century and to the present;three related chapters,includinganinterview with John Bartonand anessayby Arthur Miller,addressthe challenge that Ibsen's plays continue to present to theatre directors and tothe practising dramatists of today,as well as to those who work in film andtelevision.  \nA full chronology and a detailed list of works provide essential tools for thestudent and scholar.There are also extensive chapters on the changing natureof twentieth-century criticism of Ibsen and on those reference works essentialto a fuller understanding of the dramatist.  \nJames McFarlane was Professor of European Literature at the University ofEast Anglia and Fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.Among his other works on Scandinavian subjects are the eight volumes of TheOxford Ibsen,the standard English text of the 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