Ghosts: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 21:55, 21 December 2011

Date: 1881 1890 1892 1939

Region: Europe

Subject: Political/Economic/Social Opinion

Medium: Theatre

Artist: Hendrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906)

Confronting Bodies: Russian Religious Authorities, England's Lord Chamberlain, Spain's censors under Franco.

Dates of Action: 1881, 1890, 1892, 1939

Location: All of Scandinavia, England, Spain, Russia and later the Soviet Union

Description of Artwork: Ghosts, 1890: Drama, one of the most important of the author's realistic period. Its protagonist, the widowed Mrs. Alving has used her energies to suppress the truth about her profligate husband. The play's crisis is provoked by the return from Paris of her son, Oswald, suffering not from consumption but from syphilis, derived from his father. Although the play deals with such taboo subjects as incest and euthanasia, it is chiefly about the death conventions that smother a society's vitality.

The Incident: 1881, Norway, the play was published but caused such an international scandal that no established theater in Scandinavia would dare produce it. 1890, St. Petersburg, the Church had the play banned. 1892, England, the application for a licence was refused by the Lord Chamberlain. 1939, Spain, the work was purged by the Franco Government.

Results of Incident: 1915, England, ban removed by the Lord Chamberlain. 1958, Soviet Union, works formerly banned reported to be extremely popular.

Source: Banned Books 387 B.C. to 1978 A.D., by Anne Lyon Haight, and Chandler B. Grannis, R.R. Bowker Co, 1978.

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+====Region: [[:Category:Europe|Europe]]====
-====Subject: [[:Category:Political/Economic/Social Opinion|Political/Economic/Social Opinion]] [[:Category:|]] [[:Category:|]]====
+====Subject: [[:Category:Political/Economic/Social Opinion|Political/Economic/Social Opinion]]====
-====Medium: [[:Category:Theatre|Theatre]] [[:Category:|]] [[:Category:|]]====
+====Medium: [[:Category:Theatre|Theatre]]====
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-'''Artist:''' Hendrik Ibsen
+'''Artist:''' Hendrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906)
-'''Confronting Bodies:''' Several including Lord Chamberlain
+'''Confronting Bodies:''' Russian Religious Authorities, England's Lord Chamberlain, Spain's censors under Franco.
-'''Dates of Action:''' 1881
+'''Dates of Action:''' 1881, 1890, 1892, 1939
-'''Location:''' Norway, England, Spain and the Soviet Union
+'''Location:''' All of Scandinavia, England, Spain, Russia and later the Soviet Union
+[[File:Ghosts.jpg|left]]
+'''Description of Artwork:''' ''Ghosts'', 1890: Drama, one of the most important of the author's realistic period. Its protagonist, the widowed Mrs. Alving has used her energies to suppress the truth about her profligate husband. The play's crisis is provoked by the return from Paris of her son, Oswald, suffering not from consumption but from syphilis, derived from his father. Although the play deals with such taboo subjects as incest and euthanasia, it is chiefly about the death conventions that smother a society's vitality.
-'''Description of Artwork:''' "The Ghosts," 1890: Drama, one of the most important of the author's realistic period. Its protagonist, the widowed Mrs. Alving has used her energies to suppress the truth about her profligate husband. The play's crisis is provoked by the return from Paris of her son, Oswald, suffering not from consumption but from syphilis, derived from his father. Although the play deals with such taboo subjects as incest and euthanasia, it is chiefly about the death conventions that smother a society's vitality.
+'''The Incident:''' 1881, Norway, the play was published but caused such an international scandal that no established theater in Scandinavia would dare produce it. 1890, St. Petersburg, the Church had the play banned. 1892, England, the application for a licence was refused by the Lord Chamberlain. 1939, Spain, the work was purged by the Franco Government.
-'''The Incident:''' 1881, Norway, the play was intended as a reform and was received with ill will. 1892, England, the application for a licence was refused by the Lord Chamberlain. Long after Ibsen's position had been recognized in modern letters, the censor still interposed his shocked and obstinate personality between the British public and the Norwegian author. 1939, Spain, Work purged by the Franco Government.
 '''Results of Incident:''' 1915, England, ban removed by the Lord Chamberlain. 1958, Soviet Union, works formerly banned reported to be extremely popular.
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 '''Source:''' Banned Books 387 B.C. to 1978 A.D., by Anne Lyon Haight, and Chandler B. Grannis, R.R. Bowker Co, 1978.
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