Date of Award

6-1925

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

English

First Advisor

Thomas P. Whelan

Second Advisor

Joseph C. Flynn

Abstract

Almost a score of years before Ibsen ushered in the New Drama with his monumental series of social dramas, he said: "The experience of all countries has sufficiently established the fact that dramatic art, in every age in which it has been cultivated, has in a higher degree than any other, shown itself an important factor in the education of the people--a very obvious explanation of which fact is to be found in the drama1 s more intimate and direct relation to reality; in other words, in its greater intelligibility and in its easier and more general accessibility to the whole people". Twenty years later he expressed a more meanful view, a view which readily presents itself as a clue to the artistic revolution in the drama of our day. He wrote: "A man shares the responsibilities and the guilt of the society to which he belongs". The whole modern developement in the art of the theatre, of which John Galsworthy is a leading figure, is thus subsequently summed up in the career of Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906).

Comments

A Thesis Submitted to Fulfill the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts

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