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.
Ghosts (1881), preferably in A Doll’s House and other Plays, London: Penguin, 2016.
Little Eyolf (1894), preferably in in The Master Builder and other Plays, London: Penguin, 2016.
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)
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.
Fischer-Lichte, Erika (ed.). The Routledge Introduction to Theatre and Performance Studies. London: Routledge, 47–70.
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.
Ledger, Sally. 2007. “Naturalism: ?Dirt and Horror Pure and Simple?”. In Adventures in Realism, edited by Matthew Beaumont, 68–83. Malden: Blackwell.
Lingard, John. 2001. “Known of Old and Long Familiar. Norwegian Folklore and the Uncanny in Little Eyolf”. In Proceedings – IX International Ibsen Conference, edited by P?l Bj?rby and Asbj?rn Aarseth, 225–232. Bergen: Alvheim&Eide.
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 (available online)
B?, Gudleiv. 1994. “Love and Identity in Olaf Liljekrans”. In Proceedings – VII International Ibsen Conference, 284–298. Oslo: Centre for Ibsen Studies.
Freud, Sigmund. 2003. “The Uncanny.” In The Uncanny, translated by David McLintock, 121–161. London: Penguin. https://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/freud1.pdf
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.
Gjervan, Ellen. 2011. “Ibsen Staging Ibsen: Henrik Ibsen’s Culturally Embedded Staging Practice in Bergen”. Ibsen Studies 11 (II): 117–144.
Helland, Frode. 2003. “Petrified time: Ibsen’s response to modernity, with special emphasis on Little Eyolf”. Ibsen Studies 2 (II): 135–144.
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.
Hyldig, Keld. 2015. “Ibsen, Bj?rnson and the Art of Acting”, Nordlit 34, 287-302.
Kaplan, Merrill. 2004. “Hedda and Hj?rdis: Saga and scandal in Hedda Gabler and The Vikings at Helgeland”. Ibsen Studies 4 (I): 18–29.
Nilu, Kamaluddin. 2007. “Contemporary Political Relevance of Ibsen’s Brand – the Case of Islamic Fundamentalism”. Ibsen Studies 7 (I): 105–121.
Nygaard, Jon. 2014. “The Wilder the Starting Point: Some Critical Remarks to Michael Meyer’s Ibsen: A Biography”. Scandinavian Studies 86 (I): 72–97.
Perrelli, Franco. 2018. “Ibsen and the Italian Risorgimento”. In On Ibsen and Strindberg. The Reversed Telescope, 2–11. London: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Reid, John. 2009. “?Biting the Sour Apple?: The Nietzschean Undertow in Little Eyolf”. Modern Drama 52 (I): 1–18.
Tysdahl, Bj?rn. 2003. “An advocatus diaboli reading Ibsen’s letters about art from Rome”. Ibsen Studies 3 (II): 210–224.
Suggested background reading
De Figueiredo, Ivo. 2019. Ibsen. The Man & The Mask. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Janet Garton’s, Toril Moi’s and Tore Rem’s introductions in the respective New Penguin Ibsen editions.