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Indeed - and more recent incarnations of the genre, if well done, are more likely to supplant the original as influences, simply because they address more conte
by mannykannot 8y ago
Indeed - and more recent incarnations of the genre, if well done, are more likely to supplant the original as influences, simply because they address more contemporary, less settled issues.
- kazinator 8y agoAlso, there was a theme in art of the 1800's of critizing the bourgeoise before Ibsen. Maybe not in plays, but certainly in painting. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Awakening_Conscience https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Awakening_Conscience The woman in that painting, 26 years before A Doll's House could well be "Nora".
- dash2 8y agoHmm, but that is criticising bourgeois behaviour in the name of bourgeois and/or Christian values, no? Whereas Ibsen criticises the values themselves…. Of course, this dichotomy is too simple, and tags like "bourgeois values" are shortcut descriptions of a moral world with as much complexity and contradictions as the present day's….