All the World is a Living Room - a study of Ibsen's Realism: syllabus
Week 1 The use of a household as a microcosm
Week 2 A morality play in the living room
Week 3 Ideology, Psychology and Politics
Week 4 The metamorphosis of Dr. Stockman into Greges Verle
Week 5 The wild duck as a developing symbol
Week 6 The dramatic syntax of the wild duck
Week 7 The landscape as the landscape of the Mind
Week 8 The Haunting Ghost in a realistic drama
Week 9 Text and supertext in the The Lady of the Sea
Week 10 Ibsen’s drama as the Rite of Passage
Week 11 The use of mythology in realistic drama
Week 12 Ibsen’s drama as an act of exorcism