Tracing Sanna kvinnor across the Nordic Theatre Landscape: Intermediaries and Forces of Circulation

Abstract: Established historiographical accounts suggest that, following Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, plays by women playwrights made Swedish theatre into a feminist tribune for a brief period in the early 1880s but that their relevance had diminished by the latter half of the decade. By examining the circulation of Anne Charlotte Leffler’s Sanna kvinnor [True Women], 1883, in Nordic theatre between 1883 and 1925, this article critically evaluates these prevalent accounts by inclusively and comprehensively exploring previously overlooked empirical sources in now-digitized newspaper databases. This return to the archives aims at mapping the circulation of Sanna kvinnor, investigating the crucial forces driving its dissemination across the Nordic theatrical landscape, by considering the most important intermediaries: Danish playwright and priest Jens Christian Hostrup and his wife Elisabeth, and Swedish actor Emil Hillberg.

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Tracing Sanna kvinnor across the Nordic Theatre Landscape: Intermediaries and Forces of Circulation ; volume:54 ; number:1 ; year:2024 ; pages:85-104 ; extent:20 ; European journal of Scandinavian studies ; 54, Heft 1 (2024), 85-104 (gesamt 20)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Lindh Estelle, Birgitta

Further information

• DOI: 10.1515/ejss-2024-2005
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2410151536430.303318442602
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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