Immanuel Kant,Critique of Pure Reason. Jean- Jacques Rousseau,Confession s. J. C. Friedrich Schiller,The Robbers

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1 Date Ibsen European culture Other : Immanuel Kant,Critique of Pure Reason. Jean- Jacques Rousseau,Confession s. J. C. Friedrich Schiller,The Robbers Start of the French Revolution. The tremendous changes going on in France influenced the artists of the Romantic Movement. William Blake's Songs of Innocence is published Mary Wollstonecraft,A Vindication of the Rights of Woma Songs of Experience by William Blake is published.

2 Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Mary Shelley) is born in England. Lyrical Ballads written by Samuel Coleridge and William Wordsworth is published. This collection reflects many of the themes valued by the writers of the Romantic Movement. first version of The novel Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is completed In Phenomenology of Spirit Friedrich Hegel interprets history as the advance of the human mind, often through thesis, antithesis and synthesis Mary Wollstonecraft dies complications of childbirth Abolition of the slave trade Ludwig van Beethoven,Symp honies 5 and 6 Kingdopm of Norway ceded to Sweden

3 Ibsen born in Skien, Norway father experienced bankruptcy; compelled to sell comfortable house in the city and move to small 1834 summer home in Venstop The novel Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is published. The novel is an example of a Gothic work that was created out of the elements of Romanticism. German composer Ludwig van Beethoven, seen as bridging the transition between Classical and Romantic music, completes his Ninth Russian poet Alexander Pushkin publishes his play Boris Godunov, written in blank verse, In The World as Will and Idea Schopenhauer develops the bleakest possible view of the effects of the human will

4 left school to become an apprentice to an apothecary in Grimstad Poet and fiction writer Edgar Allan Poe publishes The Raven and Other Poems fathered a son with a servant girl; had little contact with the boy, as he soon moved to Kristiania (Oslo) published first play, 1850 Catiline; not performed. The police acts against the thranitter agency Arbeider- Foreningens Blad, seizes manuscripts and arrests Thrane and editor Abildgaard. Ibsen has written for the magazine and also taught at a Sunday school for workers, but manuscripts of him are not found, and Ibsen avoids police and judiciary. Moved to Bergen to work as playwright-inresidence at the Norwegian Theater Writing under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, Emily Brontë publishes Wuthering Heights in 1847, a year before her death. Charlotte Bronte publishes Jane Eyre under the pseudonym Currer Bell Karl Marx: Communist Maifesto Holman Hunt paints 'the awakening conscience'.

5 Sets Shakespeare's As You Like It in Sille Beyer's translation under the title Livet i Skoven at Det norske Theater. Lectures on Shakespeare's influence on Nordic art in the "Association of 22 December". Manuscript or record is not preserved. returned to Kristiania to become creative director at the theater, married Suzannah Thoresen son Sigurd was born Women are given permission to work as teachers in rural, primary schools. In 1869 they were given the same right in city schools. disillusioned with Norway, moved to Sorrento in Italy 1865 published 1866 acclaimed play, Brand published 1867 acclaimed play, Peer Gynt moved to Dresden, 1868 Germany Writing The Young Women's Federation, published The League of 1869 Youth 1870 Charles Darwin publishes Origin of Species Tristan und Isolde (Wagner) premiered: Munich John Stuart Mill ( ) - The Subjection of Women Dostoevsky living alongside Ibsen in Dresden

6 Ibsen's name reaches England through Edmund Gosses's review of Digte, "Ibsen's New Poems" in The Spectator, which also contains a short presentation of the poet. published Emperor and Galilean Invites Edvard Grieg to compose the music for Peer Gynt. published Pillars of Society, Informs hegel tha the is wrtiting a play about 'contemporary life' A Doll's House published First Bayreuth festival, first performance of Wagner's Ring Cycle First German translation of A Doll's House : Nora oder Ein Puppenheim: Schauspiel in drei Aufzügen. Otto von Bismarck achieves unification of Germany under leadership of Prussia; Dresden was the seat of the second-party day in the Social Democratic German Labour Party (SDAP)

7 A Doll's House has a German premiere at Stadttheater in Flensburg. Here and at theaters in Hamburg, Dresden, Hannover and Berlin, Ibsen's alternative 1880 end is being used published Ghosts 1882 published An Enemy of the People Women are given the right to attain artium (university entrance) examination, and Cecilie Thoresen is the first woman student to do so In Thus Spake Zarathustra Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche envisages the Übermensch ('sup erman') enhancing human existence

8 published The Wild Duck. Women are given the right to study and achieve the final examination at all faculties at the University. After completing the examination, women could open practice as medical doctors and dentists, but in other respects they were not given access to work in public offices, such as law, philosophy and within other fields for which they were qualified. The Norwegian Association for Women s Rights is founded published Rosmersholm Establishment of Norsk kvinnesaksforenin g (The Norwegian Women s Liberation Organisation Full parliamen tarianism under Liberal administr ation 1887 published The Lady 1888 from the Sea 1889 published Hedda 1890 Gabler returned to Norway George Bernard Shaw after several decades spent publishes 'the mainly in Italy and quintessence of 1891 Germany Ibsenism Munch: The Scream Berthold Brecht born Freud: 'interpretation 1899 of dreams' 1900 weakened by series of strokes. Women are given a limited right to vote, and can be elected in the 1901 municipalities elections

9 died in Kristiania, Norway Norway gains independence fro Sweden First World War starts

A Doll s House. Teaching Unit. Advanced Placement in English Literature and Composition. Individual Learning Packet.

A Doll s House. Teaching Unit. Advanced Placement in English Literature and Composition. Individual Learning Packet. Advanced Placement in English Literature and Composition Individual Learning Packet Teaching Unit by Henrik Ibsen Written by Ashlin Bray Copyright 2006 by Prestwick House Inc., P.O. Box 658, Clayton, DE