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Ghosts (play), the Glossary

Ghosts (Gengangere) is a play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.^[1]

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A Doll's House

A Doll's House (Danish and Et dukkehjem; also translated as A Doll House) is a three-act play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. Ghosts (play) and a Doll's House are plays by Henrik Ibsen and Tragedy plays.

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Alla Nazimova

Alla Nazimova (born Marem-Ides Leventon, Russian: Марем-Идес Левентон; June 3, 1879 – July 13, 1945) was a Russian-American actress, director, producer and screenwriter.

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Almeida Theatre

The Almeida Theatre is a 325-seat producing house located on Almeida Street off Upper Street in the London Borough of Islington.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC Radio 3

BBC Radio 3 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.

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Ben Brantley

Benjamin D. Brantley (born October 26, 1954) is an American theater critic, journalist, editor, publisher, and writer.

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Brian McCardie

Brian McCardie (22 January 1965 – 28 April 2024) was a Scottish actor and writer, known for his role as John Thomas "Tommy" Hunter in the BBC police procedural series Line of Duty.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many of the extant or closed Broadway venues use or used the spelling Theatre as the proper noun in their names.

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BroadwayWorld

BroadwayWorld is a theatre news website based in New York City covering Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional, and international theatre productions.

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Brooklyn Academy of Music

The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is a multi-arts center in Brooklyn, New York City.

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Charlene McKenna

Charlene Lee McKenna (Searlaoin Nic Chionaoith; born 26 March 1984) is an Irish actress.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Congenital syphilis

Congenital syphilis is syphilis that occurs when a mother with untreated syphilis passes the infection to her baby during pregnancy or at birth.

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Copenhagen

Copenhagen (København) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the urban area.

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Critics' Circle Theatre Award

The Critics' Circle Theatre Awards, known as the Drama Theatre Awards until 1990, are British theatrical awards presented annually for the closing year's theatrical achievements.

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D. W. Griffith

David Wark Griffith (January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948) was an American film director.

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Die Freie Bühne

Die Freie Bühne (German: "The Free Stage") was a subscription-based theatre club founded in Berlin, Germany in 1889 by ten writers and theatre critics supervised by Otto Brahm for the purpose of staging new, naturalistic plays that were censored, not commercially viable, or not otherwise commonly produced.

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Dolores del Río

María de los Dolores Asúnsolo y López Negrete (3 August 1904 – 11 April 1983), known professionally as Dolores del Río, was a Mexican actress.

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Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch (12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter.

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Edward Binns

Edward Binns (September 12, 1916 – December 4, 1990) was an American actor.

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Elijah Moshinsky

Elijah Moshinsky (8 January 1946 – 14 January 2021) was an Australian opera director, theatre director and television director who worked for the Royal Opera House, the Metropolitan Opera, the Royal National Theatre, and BBC Television, among other organisations.

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Ermete Zacconi

Ermete Zacconi (14 September 1857, Montecchio Emilia, Province of Reggio Emilia – 14 October 1948 in Viareggio) was an Italian stage and film actor and a representative of naturalism and verism in acting.

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Euthanasia

Euthanasia (from lit: label + label) is the practice of intentionally ending life to eliminate pain and suffering.

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Evening Standard

The Evening Standard, formerly The Standard (1827–1904), is a long-established newspaper, since 2009 a local free newspaper in tabloid format, with a website on the Internet, published in London, England.

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Evening Standard Theatre Awards

The Evening Standard Theatre Awards, established in 1955, are the oldest theatrical awards ceremony in the United Kingdom.

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George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist.

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Ghosts (1915 film)

Ghosts is a 1915 silent film drama based on the famous 1881 play Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen.

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Helsingborg

Helsingborg, is a city and the seat of Helsingborg Municipality, Scania (Skåne), Sweden.

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Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Johan Ibsen (20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director.

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Henry B. Walthall

Henry Brazeale Walthall (March 16, 1878 – June 17, 1936) was an American stage and film actor.

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Henry James

Henry James (–) was an American-British author.

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Ian Charleson Awards

The Ian Charleson Awards are theatrical awards that reward the best classical stage performances in Britain by actors under age 30.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Incest

Incest is human sexual activity between family members or close relatives.

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Independent Theatre Society

The Independent Theatre Society was a by-subscription-only organisation in London from 1891 to 1897, founded by Dutch drama critic Jacob Grein to give "special performances of plays which have a literary and artistic rather than a commercial value." (A Glimpse of Theatre History), accessed 15 January 2009 The society was inspired by its continental forerunners, the Théâtre-Libre (Free Theatre) and Die Freie Bühne (Free Stage).

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Jack Lowden

Jack Andrew Lowden (born 2 June 1990) is a Scottish actor.

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Jens Peter Jacobsen

Jens Peter Jacobsen (7 April 1847 – 30 April 1885) was a Danish novelist, poet, and scientist, in Denmark often just written as "J. P. Jacobsen".

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John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (officially known as the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, and commonly referred to as the Kennedy Center) is the United States National Cultural Center, located on the eastern bank of the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. It was named in 1964 as a memorial to assassinated President John F.

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John Neville (actor)

John Reginald Neville, CM OBE (2 May 1925 – 19 November 2011) was an English actor and theatre director whose career spanned more than sixty years, he was renown for his roles on both stage and screen in genres ranging from classical theatre, to fantasy and science fiction.

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Judi Dench

Dame Judith Olivia Dench (born 9 December 1934) is an English actress.

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Kelly Hunter

Kelly Hunter (born 21 July 1963) is a British film, television, radio, stage and musical actress, a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre.

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Kenneth Branagh

Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh (born 10 December 1960) is a British actor and filmmaker.

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Kevin Spacey

Kevin Spacey Fowler (born July 26, 1959) is an American actor.

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Kirsten Shepherd-Barr

Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr is an academic specialising in Victorian and modern English literature, the interaction between science and literature, and theatre studies, especially science in theatre.

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Laurence Olivier Awards

The Laurence Olivier Awards, or simply The Olivier Awards, are presented annually by the Society of London Theatre to recognise excellence in professional theatre in London.

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Lena Horne Theatre

The Lena Horne Theatre (previously the Mansfield Theatre and the Brooks Atkinson Theatre) is a Broadway theater at 256 West 47th Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.

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Lesley Manville

Lesley Ann Manville (born 12 March 1956) is an English actress known for her frequent collaborations with Mike Leigh, appearing in the films Grown-Ups (1980), High Hopes (1988), Secrets & Lies (1996), Topsy-Turvy (1999), All or Nothing (2002), Vera Drake (2004), Another Year (2010), and Mr. Turner (2014).

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Liv Ullmann

Liv Johanne Ullmann (born 16 December 1938) is a Norwegian actress.

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Lord Chamberlain's Office

The Lord Chamberlain's Office is a department within the British Royal Household.

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Lower East Side

The Lower East Side, sometimes abbreviated as LES, is a historic neighborhood in the southeastern part of Manhattan in New York City.

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Mary Alden

Mary Maguire Alden (June 18, 1883 – July 2, 1946) was an American motion picture and stage actress.

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Mary Shaw (actress)

Mary G. Shaw (January 25, 1854 – May 18, 1929) was an American actress, playwright, suffragist, and early feminist.

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Maurice Valency

Maurice Valency (22 March 1903 – 28 September 1996) was a playwright, author, critic, and popular professor of Comparative Literature at Columbia University, best known for his award-winning adaptations of plays by Jean Giraudoux and Friedrich Dürrenmatt.

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Michael Billington (critic)

Michael Keith Billington (born 16 November 1939) is a British author and arts critic.

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Michael Gambon

Sir Michael John Gambon (19 October 1940 – 27 September 2023) was an Irish-English actor.

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Milano Films

Milano Films was an Italian film production company of the silent era.

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Morphine

Morphine, formerly also called morphia, is an opiate that is found naturally in opium, a dark brown resin produced by drying the latex of opium poppies (Papaver somniferum).

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Natasha Richardson

Natasha Jane Richardson (11 May 1963 – 18 March 2009) was an English-American actress.

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National Library of Norway

The National Library of Norway (Nasjonalbiblioteket) was established in 1989.

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Naturalism (theatre)

Naturalism is a movement in European drama and theatre that developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Orphanage

An orphanage is a residential institution, total institution or group home, devoted to the care of orphans and children who, for various reasons, cannot be cared for by their biological families.

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Oscar II

Oscar II (Oscar Fredrik; 21 January 1829 – 8 December 1907) was King of Sweden from 1872 until his death in 1907 and King of Norway from 1872 to 1905.

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Pastor

A pastor (abbreviated to "Pr" or "Ptr" (both singular), or "Ps" (plural)) is the leader of a Christian congregation who also gives advice and counsel to people from the community or congregation.

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Patrick Drury

Patrick Drury (born 19 August 1945) is an English character actor best known for playing shopkeeper John O'Leary in the Channel 4 television comedy Father Ted and Ivan in The Beiderbecke Connection.

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Playbill

Playbill is an American monthly magazine for theatergoers.

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Problem play

The problem play is a form of drama that emerged during the 19th century as part of the wider movement of realism in the arts, especially following the innovations of Henrik Ibsen.

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Realism (theatre)

Realism in the theatre was a general movement that began in 19th-century theatre, around the 1870s, and remained present through much of the 20th century.

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Reuters

Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.

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Revenant

In folklore, a revenant is a spirit or animated corpse that is believed to have been revived from death to haunt the living.

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Richard Eyre

Sir Richard Charles Hastings Eyre (born 28 March 1943) is an English film, theatre, television and opera director.

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Rose Theatre Kingston

The Rose Theatre Kingston is a theatre on Kingston High Street in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames in London, England.

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Royalty Theatre

The Royalty Theatre was a small London theatre situated at 73 Dean Street, Soho.

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Sailor

A sailor, seaman, mariner, or seafarer is a person who works aboard a watercraft as part of its crew, and may work in any one of a number of different fields that are related to the operation and maintenance of a ship.

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Sexually transmitted infection

A sexually transmitted infection (STI), also referred to as a sexually transmitted disease (STD) and the older term venereal disease (VD), is an infection that is spread by sexual activity, especially vaginal intercourse, anal sex, oral sex, or sometimes manual sex.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghosts_(play)

Also known as Gengangere, Ghosts (Ibsen), Helene Alving, Parson Manders.

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See also

1881 plays

Plays about incest

Plays by Henrik Ibsen

STDs in theatre

References