James Walter McFarlane (1920–1999)
Author of A Doll's House / Ghosts / Hedda Gabler / The Master Builder
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Works by James Walter McFarlane
A Doll's House / Ghosts / Hedda Gabler / The Master Builder (1879) — Editor and Translator — 1,185 copies
Discussions of Henrik Ibsen 3 copies
Henrik Ibsen 1 copy
Ibsen and Meaning: Studies, Essays and Prefaces, 1953-87 (Series A: Scandinavian Literary History and Criticism) (1989) 1 copy
Ibsen A Doll's House 1 copy
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- Birthdate
- 1920
- Date of death
- 1999
- Organizations
- University of East Anglia
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- 9
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The Doll's House: A middle class home, a rather silly, flighty wife and mother, a rather patronising yet fond father....and three acquaintances.
Money troubles, deception, a rather melodramatic feel to the whole thing...and Nora realising, at last, that the life she's been leading as the petted, childlike wife is not sufficient for her and she needs to 'find' herself...
Ghosts- A middle class widow, her artist son, who's returned home...and a servant girl and a sanctimonious pastor. The secrets of the past start to unfold...was the widow's marriage so happy as was thought? Why has Oswald quit painting?
Hedda Gabler...probably the most gripping. An entirely amoral wife, her goofy academic husband...and a couple of faces from the past...
Master Builder...my least favourite. I appreciate the arrival of Hilde Wangel was a catalyst to the gloomy builder and his wife, but found her entirely implausible.… (more)