Primary texts
Poems
“Miner” (1851). In Ibsen’s Poems, edited and translated by John Northam, 27–28. Oslo: Norwegian University Press. (Available here)
Plays
Olaf Liljekrans (1857) (free download here)
The Vikings at Helgeland (1858) (any edition)
Brand (1866), preferably in Brand and Peer Gynt, London: Penguin, 2016.
Peer Gynt (1867), preferably in Brand and Peer Gynt, London: Penguin, 2016.
Ghosts (1881), preferably in A Doll’s House and other Plays, London: Penguin, 2016.
Hedda Gabler (1890), preferably in in Hedda Gabler and other Plays, London: Penguin, 2019.
Letters (In compendium)
To Bj?rnstjerne Bj?rnson, 16 September 1864 (35–39), 28 January 1865 (35–42, 44–47).
To Georg Brandes, 24 September 1871 (114–116), 4 April 1872 (120–123), 3 January 1882 (198–200). In Ibsen, Henrik. 1965. Letters and Speeches, edited by Evert Sprinchorn. Clinton, MA: MacGibbon & Kee.
Critical literature (in compendium)
Adorno, Theodor W. 1974. Minima Moralia. London: NLB, aphorisms 56–58.
Archer, William. 1972 (1891). “Ghosts and Gibberings”. In Henrik Ibsen. The Critical Heritage, edited by Michael Egan, 209–213. London and New York: Routledge.
Brandes, Georg. 1992 (1871). “Inaugural Lecture, 1871”. In The Theory of the Modern Stage. An Introduction to Modern Theatre and Drama, edited by Eric Bentley, 383–397. London: Penguin.
Durbach, Errol. 1994. “Brand: A Romantic Exile from Paradise”. In Bj?rn Hemmer and Vigdis Ystad (eds.), Contemporary Approaches to Ibsen VIII, 71–82. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.
Engelstad, Fredrik. 1994. “Between Moral Responsibility and Fanaticism: Reflections on Henrik Ibsen’s Brand”. In Bj?rn Hemmer and Vigdis Ystad (eds.), Contemporary Approaches to Ibsen VIII, 83–96. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.
Greenblatt, Stephen. 2008. “The Circulation of Social Energy”. In David Lodge and Nigel Wood, Modern Criticism and Theory. A Reader, 555–571.
Helgason, Jón Karl. 2017. “Hallgerd: A Bow-string Breaks”. In Echoes of Valhalla, 77–86. London: Reaktion Books.
James, Henry. 1972 (1891). “On the Occasion of Hedda Gabler”. In Henrik Ibsen. The Critical Heritage, edited by Michael Egan, 234–244. London and New York: Routledge.
Ledger, Sally. 2007. “Naturalism: ?Dirt and Horror Pure and Simple?”. In Adventures in Realism, edited by Matthew Beaumont, 68–83. Malden: Blackwell.
Moi, Toril. 2006. “The Idealist Straightjacket: Ibsen’s Early Aesthetics”. In Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism, 40–58. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Ystad, Vigdis. 1991. “The Young Ibsen – Critic and Theatre-Writer”. Contemporary Approaches to Ibsen 7: 141–160.
Critical literature (accessible from the UiO network)
Beyer, Edvard. 1994. “The Reception of Ibsen’s Brand and Peer Gynt in Scandinavia 1866-68.” In Contemporary Approaches to Ibsen, Vol. 8, edited by Bj?rn Hemmer and Vigdis Ystad, 47-69. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press. (Link will be sent later)
B?, Gudleiv. 1994. “Love and Identity in Olaf Liljekrans”. In Proceedings – VII International Ibsen Conference, 284–298. Oslo: Centre for Ibsen Studies. https://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2012012406079
Fuls?s, Narve and Tore Rem. 2018. “From Stage to Page” and “No Escape”. In Ibsen, Scandinavia, and the Making of World Drama, 9–66. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press.
https://doi-org.ezproxy.uio.no/10.1017/9781316946176.003
https://doi-org.ezproxy.uio.no/10.1017/9781316946176.004
Gjervan, Ellen. 2011. “Ibsen Staging Ibsen: Henrik Ibsen’s Culturally Embedded Staging Practice in Bergen”. Ibsen Studies 11 (II): 117–144.
https://doi.org/10.1080/15021866.2011.617210
Helland, Frode. 2018. “The Scars of Modern Life. Hedda Gabler in Adorno’s Prism”. In Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler: Philosophical Perspectives, edited by Kristin Gjesdal, 92–111. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780190467876.001.0001/oso-9780190467876-chapter-5
Hemmer, Bj?rn. 1994. “Ibsen and the Realistic Problem Drama”. In The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen, edited by James McFarlane, 68–88. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
https://doi-org.ezproxy.uio.no/10.1017/CCOL0521411661.005
Hyldig, Keld. 2015. “Ibsen, Bj?rnson and the Art of Acting”, Nordlit 34, 287-302.
https://doi.org/10.7557/13.3374
Kaplan, Merrill. 2004. “Hedda and Hj?rdis: Saga and scandal in Hedda Gabler and The Vikings at Helgeland”. Ibsen Studies 4 (I): 18–29.
https://doi.org/10.1080/15021860410007744
Lisi, Leonardo. 2008. “Allegory, Capital, Modernity: Peer Gynt and Ibsen’s Modern Breakthrough”. Ibsen Studies 8 (I): 43–68.
https://doi-org.ezproxy.uio.no/10.1080/15021860802133751
Nilu, Kamaluddin. 2007. “Contemporary Political Relevance of Ibsen’s Brand – the Case of Islamic Fundamentalism”. Ibsen Studies 7 (I): 105–121.
https://doi.org/10.1080/15021860701489007
Nygaard, Jon. 2014. “The Wilder the Starting Point: Some Critical Remarks to Michael Meyer’s Ibsen: A Biography”. Scandinavian Studies 86 (I): 72–97.
https://www-jstor-org.ezproxy.uio.no/stable/10.5406/scanstud.86.1.0072
Perrelli, Franco. 2018. “Ibsen and the Italian Risorgimento”. In On Ibsen and Strindberg. The Reversed Telescope, 2–11. London: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
https://www.cambridgescholars.com/download/sample/65006
Reinert, Otto. 1995. “Notes to Peer Gynt”. Scandinavian Studies 67 (IV): 434–475. https://www-jstor-org.ezproxy.uio.no/stable/40919806
Shepherd-Barr. 2018. “Against Interpretation? Hedda and the Performing Self”. In Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler: Philosophical Perspectives, edited by Kristin Gjesdal, 92–111. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780190467876.001.0001/oso-9780190467876-chapter-9
Tysdahl, Bj?rn. 2003. “An advocatus diaboli reading Ibsen’s letters about art from Rome”. Ibsen Studies 3 (II): 210–224.
https://doi.org/10.1080/15021860310000625
Aarseth, Asbj?rn. 2001. “Peer Gynt and Hegel’s Ideas on Egyptian Art”. Scandinavian Studies 73 (IV): 535-546. https://www-jstor-org.ezproxy.uio.no/stable/40920333
Suggested background reading
De Figueiredo, Ivo. 2019. Ibsen. The Man & The Mask. New Haven: Yale University Press.
The introductions in the respective New Penguin Ibsen editions.