Joan Templeton

List of John Benjamins publications in which Joan Templeton is involved.

Articles

Templeton, Joan 2022 Early theatrical realism on page and stage: Zola, Ibsen, Strindberg Landscapes of Realism: Rethinking literary realism in comparative perspectives, Larsen, Svend Erik, Steen Bille Jørgensen and Margaret R. Higonnet (eds.), pp. 489–502 | Article

This essay discusses Émile Zola as a pioneer of theatrical realism, focusing on the modern, anti-idealist notion of le vrai in the twin volumes Le Naturalisme au Théâtre and Nos Auteurs Dramatiques (1881). It then analyzes the work of Henrik Ibsen, disproving the conventional wisdom that the… read more

Templeton, Joan 2022 Varieties of theatrical realism after Ibsen Landscapes of Realism: Rethinking literary realism in comparative perspectives, Larsen, Svend Erik, Steen Bille Jørgensen and Margaret R. Higonnet (eds.), pp. 667–684 | Article

The major theorist of realist theatre after Henrik Ibsen was Bernard Shaw, whose critical writings constitute the most important case for theatrical realism since Émile Zola, and whose own plays are an idiosyncratic blend of fourth-wall realism, drawing-room comedy, and opera. The plays of… read more