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This 15 page report discusses two of the greatest playwrights of the
“modern” Western world, Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) and George Bernard Shaw
(1856-1950) and how they created dramatic works that titillated, fascinated, and shocked
audiences. In Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Shaw’s Saint Joan, the reader or the audience
member sees each author’s point of view regarding what it meant to be a truly “free”
woman. Both plays also make note of the price exacted for such freedom. Bibliography
lists 5 sources.
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15 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_BWfreewo.rtf
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fascinated, and shocked audiences. Shaws dramas are some of the most provocative and humorous ever created in the English language. While the Norwegian Ibsen realistically dealt with psychological and social
problems that dramatists of his time generally chose to carefully avoid. Because of that boldness, many consider him the "father of modern drama." Despite their geographic and national differences, the
fact that Ibsen was old enough to have been Shaws father, and their cultural backgrounds, both were willing to address topics that were considered off-limits but which, presented on stage,
made it clear to all who saw the productions that there were certain issues that were very much part of the collective conscious of the time. Blazing New Dramatic
Trails In his early works, Ibsen considered the pointlessness of a false sense of duty (Brand), the ways that an opportunist will take advantage of every situation (Peer Gynt), and
the result of a lack of ethics in business (Pillars of Society). From that point it was only logical to look at the ways in which pointlessness, duty, opportunity, and
ethics are expressed in the relationship between a husband and wife. In A Dolls House (1879), probably the best-known of his works he looked at the possibility that a woman,
finding herself in a loveless marriage and living a life as an overprotected wife, was certain to "snap" in order to save herself, her sanity, and her individuality. Considering that
the play was presented at the height of the Victorian Age of repressive propriety, the play was particularly bold. An interesting note regarding Ibsen and Shaw is the fact
that Shaw was an ardent and vocal supporter of Ibsens works and both praised and championed their production. The student working on this project may not find such a fact
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