The (im)possibility of filming Ibsen

• Main Author: Chen, Melvin
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Film; Ibsen
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81966; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/41042
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This article begins by taking the paucity of good filmed versions of Ibsen as an empirical fact or a given, as it were. It then introduces the Shakespeare premise, which it proceeds to adopt as valid. This opens up the possible conclusion that great film adaptations might arise from great dramatic t...