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Ibsen Timeline : Doll's House

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1780

1781

Immanuel

Kant,Critique of Pure

Reason . Jean-

Jacques

Rousseau,Confession

s . J. C. Friedrich

Schiller,The Robbers

1782

1783

1784

1785

1786

1787

1788

1789

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

1790

1791 :

1792

Mary Wollstonecraft,A

Vindication of the

Rights of Woma

1793

1794

Songs of

Experience by

William Blake is

published.

1795

1796


1797

Mary Wollstonecraft

Godwin Mary Shelley)

is born in England.

Mary

Wollstonecraft

dies

complications of

childbirth

1798

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.

1799

1800

1801

1802

1803

1804

1805

first version of The

novel Frankenstein by

Mary Wollstonecraft

Shelley is completed

1806

1807

In Phenomenology of

Spirit Friedrich Hegel

interprets history as

the advance of the

human mind, often

through thesis,

antithesis and

synthesis

Abolition of the

slave trade

1808

Ludwig van

Beethoven,Symp

honies 5 and 6

1809

1810

1811

1812

1813

1814

Kingdopm of

Norway ceded to

Sweden

1815

1816


1817

1818

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.

1819

1820

1821

1822

1823

1824

German composer

Ludwig van

Beethoven, seen as

bridging the transition

between Classical and

Romantic music,

completes his Ninth

1825

1826

1827

1828

Ibsen born in Skien,

Norway

1829

1830

1831

Russian poet

Alexander Pushkin

publishes his play

Boris Godunov,

written in blank verse,

1832

1833

1834

father experienced

bankruptcy; compelled to

sell comfortable house in

the city and move to small

summer home in Venstop

1835

1836

1837

1838

1839

1840

1841

1842

In The World as Will and

Idea Schopenhauer

develops the bleakest

possible view of the effects

of the human will


1843

1844

1845

left school to become

an apprentice to an

apothecary in Grimstad

Poet and fiction

writer Edgar Allan

Poe publishes

The Raven and

Other Poems

1846

1847

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

1848

fathered a son with a

servant girl; had little

contact with the boy, as he

soon moved to Kristiania

(Oslo)

Karl Marx: Communist

Maifesto

1849

1850

published first play,

Catiline; not performed.

1851

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-in-

residence at the Norwegian

Theater1852

1853

Holman Hunt paints

'the awakening

conscience'.

1854


1855

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.

1856

1857

1858

returned to Kristiania

to become creative director

at the theater, married

Suzannah Thoresen

1859

son Sigurd was born

Charles Darwin

publishes Origin of

Species

1860

Women are given permission

to work as teachers in rural,

primary schools. In 1869 they

were given the same right in

city schools.

1861

1862

1863

1864

disillusioned with

Norway, moved to Sorrento

in Italy

1865

Tristan und Isolde

(Wagner) premiered:

Munich

1866

published

acclaimed play, Brand

1867

published

acclaimed play, Peer Gynt

1868

moved to Dresden,

Germany

1869

Writing The Young

Women's Federation,

published The League of

Youth

John Stuart Mill (1806 -

1873) - The

Subjection of Women

1870

Dostoevsky living

alongside Ibsen in

Dresden


1871

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)

1872

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.

1873

published Emperor

and Galilean

1874

Invites Edvard Grieg to

compose the music for

Peer Gynt.

1875

1876

First Bayreuth festival,

first performance of

Wagner's Ring Cycle

1877

published Pillars of

Society, Informs hegel tha

the is wrtiting a play about

'contemporary life'

1878

1879

A Doll's House published

First German

translation of A Doll's

House : Nora oder

Ein Puppenheim:

Schauspiel in drei

Aufzügen .


1880

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

end is being used.

1881 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.

1883

In Thus Spake

Zarathustra Friedrich

Wilhelm Nietzsche

envisages

the Übermensch ('sup

erman') enhancing

human existence


1884

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

Establishment of

Norsk

kvinnesaksforenin

g (The Norwegian

Women s

Liberation

Organisation

Full

parliamen

tarianism

under

Liberal

administr

ation

1885

1886

published

Rosmersholm

1887

1888

published The Lady

from the Sea

1889

1890

published Hedda

Gabler

1891

returned to Norway

after several decades spent

mainly in Italy and

Germany

George Bernard Shaw

publishes 'the

quintessence of

Ibsenism

1892

1893 Munch: The Scream

1894

1895

1896

1897

1898 Berthold Brecht born

1899

Freud: 'interpretation

of dreams'

1900

1901

weakened by series of

strokes. Women are given

a limited right to vote, and

can be elected in the

municipalities’ elections


1902

1903

1904

1905

Norway gains

independence fro

Sweden

1906

died in Kristiania,

Norway

1907

1908

1909

1910

1911

1912

1913

1914

First World War

starts

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