Excerpt from Ibsen in Germany, 1870-1900 If the opposition seems to be unduly stressed by the quota tions in the succeeding pages, this is not to be attributed to any predilection of the investigator for that point of view. The positive in uence of Ibsen is to be sought pri marily in the creative literature of the time, and its testi mony is abundant and eloquent enough. While the older generation and its supporters battled the new with words, the latter, as is always the case, was engrossed in practice rather than in verbal eloquence. In this practice Ibsen and the German appreciation of him are vindicated if that is at all necessary. In preference to paraphrasing various comments of a critical nature, I have given them verbatim. I have had two reasons in mind for such procedure: first, this method pre sents exactly what was written and allows immediate contact with the critic's point of view; second, the records them selves aid the reader to reconstruct the spirit of the epoch, das Kulturhistorische, which would be less tangible in my own and briefer phraseology. I have translated all citations because I hoped the thesis would be of interest to some who know little or nothing of the German and Norse idioms. For any who might desire the original statements, and I realize how acceptable they will be to some, I have included them in the Appendix. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

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Excerpt from Ibsen In these pages, where the space at my disposal was so small, I have not been willing to waste it by repeating the plots of any of those plays of Ibsen which are open to the English reader. It would please me best if this book might be read in connection with the final edition of Ibsen's Complete Dramatic Works, now being prepared by Mr. Archer. If we may judge of the whole work by those volumes of it which have already appeared, I have little hesitation in saying that no other foreign author of the second half of the nineteenth century has been so ably and exhaustively edited in English as Ibsen has been in this instance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.