Includes page references to discussions of individual works in the following general
works (bold indicates abbreviation):
Frihet! Sannhet! Temaer i Jens Bjørneboes forfatterskap, ed.
Y.
R. Otnes. Oslo: Pax, 1977.
Garton, Janet. Jens Bjørneboe: Prophet Without Honor.
Contributions to the Study of World Literature, no. 9. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing
Group,
1985.
Hambro, Carl. 1978. Jens Bjørneboe, en litterær profil.
Oslo: Gyldendal.
Lem, Steinar. Bjørneboes menneskesyn i "Frihetens
øyeblikk" (Bjørneboe's view of man in Moment of Freedom)
Oslo: Aschehoug, 1981.
Martin, Joe. Keeper of the Protocols : The Works of Jens Bjørneboe
in the Crosscurrents of Western Literature. American University Studies. Series I, Germanic
Languages and Literatures, vol. 108. New York: Peter Lang, 1996.
Otnes, Yngvild Risdal. Bjørneboe. Norske forfattere i
nærlys. 2. Oslo: Aschehoug, 1974.
Tharaldsen, Ottil. Kvinnesyn og mannsrolle i fire romaner av Jens
Bjørneboe (View of woman and man's role in four novels of JB) Oslo:
Universitetsforlaget, 1977.
Wandrup, Fredrik. Jens Bjørneboe : mannen, myten og kunsten
(Jens Bjørneboe: the man, the myth, the art) Oslo: Gyldendal, 1984.
General references
Bergseth, L. "Jens Bjørneboes syn på drama og teater" (JB's
view of drama and the theater) Dissertation. Univ. of Bergen, 1984.
Bjørneboe, Jens. Om Brecht (On Brecht). Ed. Tone Bjørneboe
and C. F. Engelstad. Oslo: Pax Forlag, 1977. Essays.
Bjørneboe, Jens. Om Teater (On Theater). Ed. Tone
Bjørneboe and C. F. Engelstad. Oslo: Pax Forlag, 1978. Essays.
————."Jens Bjørneboe and the Norwegian
theater". In Bjørneboe, Jens. Amputation: Texts for an Extraordinary
Spectacle. Riverside, CA: Xenos Books, 137-142.. Translation and revision of Johannessen
1996.
Longum, Leif. "In the Shadow of Ibsen: His Influence on Norwegian Drama and
on Literary Attitudes." Review of National Literatures 12 (1983):78-100. Ibsen's
influence on Gunnar Heiberg, Helge Krog, Nordahl Grieg, and Jens Bjørneboe.
Martin, Chapter 4 (93-128).
Munzar, J. "Jens Bjørneboe als Dramatiker im Kontext des
norwegischen Dramas" (JB as a dramatist in the context of the Norwegian drama).
Brünner Beiträge zur Germanistik und Nordistik, 6 (1988):125-134.
Nilsen, Lars Helge. "Dramatikeren Jens Bjørneboe" (The
dramatist
JB). Norrøna 3 (1986), no. 5 :67-71.
Wandrup, Chapter 12-13 (122-142).
Til Lykke med Dagen (Many Happy Returns!) Oslo: Pax
Forlag, 1965.
Garton, 74-76.
Hambro, 101-5.
Hauge-Eriksen, Merete. "Jens Bjørneboes Den onde hyrde,
Tonny og Til lykke med dagen, roman—film—drama : en studie i
adapsjonsproblemer" (The Evil Shepherd, Tonnie and Many Happy
Returns, novel—film—drama: a study in problems of adaptation). Dissertation.
Univ of Bergen, 1981.
Martin, 110-113.
Otnes, 45f..
Stokka, Jan Terje. "Jens Bjørneboe som dramatiker på grunnlag
av en analyse av Til lykke med dagen (1965) og forordene og etterordene til Samlede
skuespill" (JB as a dramatist on the basis of an analysis of Many Happy
Returns and the forewords and afterwords to Collected Plays).
Eigenproduksjon, 2 (1977):1-25.
Aarnes, Sigurd Aa."'Det ondes problem'. Nazismen i Jens Bjørneboes
dikting." In Nazismen og norsk litteratur. 2. utg., ed by Bjarte Birkeland et al.,
365-387. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1995. JB's depiction of Nazism and preoccupation with
Germany, with particular reference to Ere the Cock Crows, Under a Harder Heaven, The
Bird-Lovers, and Moment of Freedom.
Aarnes, Sigurd Aa."The Problem of
Evil"—Nazism in Jens Bjørneboe's writing. Translated by John
Weinstock. IThe Nordic Mind: Current Trends in Scandinavian Literary Criticism,
edited. by Frank Egholm Andersen and John Weinstock. 223-50. Lanham MD: University
Presses of America, 1986. Translation of the foregoing (1st ed, 1975).
Kvamme, Elsa. Kjære Jens, Kjære Eugenio: Om Jens
Bjørneboe,
Eugenio Barba og opprørernes teater (Oslo: Pax, 2004), 135-160.
Longum, Leif. 1977. "Jens Bjørneboes
Fugleelskerne—tidløshet og samtidsproblematikk" (JB's The Bird-Lovers—timelessness and contemporary
problematic). In Drama-analyser fra Holberg til Moem, edited by Leif Longum,
114-126. Oslo, Universitetsforlaget, 1977.
Martin, 113-118.
Nilsen, Lars Helge. "Om mottagelsen av Jens Bjørneboes skuespill
Fugleelskerne, Nationaltheateret 1966 og Riksteatret 1975" (On the reception of
The Bird-Lovers at National Theater 1966 and State Theater 1975). Dissertation. Univ.
of
Bergen, 1985.
Slutaas, Fred Olav. "Jens Bjørneboes Fugleelskerne: en
hermeneutisk analyse" (The Bird-Lovers: a hermeneutic analysis). Dissertation.
Univ. of Trondheim, 1993.
Wæraas, Øyvind. "Fugleelskerne av Jens
Bjørneboe: en analyse" (The Bird-Lovers: an analysis). Dissertation. Univ.
of Bergen, 1970.
Wandrup, 131-3.
Wasser, Fred. Translator's Introduction to The Bird Lovers, by Jens
Bjørneboe, 5-13. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon, 1994.
Aase, Laila. "Jens Bjørneboes Semmelweis: En kritisk
analyse" (Semmelweis: a critical analysis). Dissertation. Univ. of Bergen,
1975.
Aase, Laila. "Semmelweis—politisk teater"
(Semmelweis—political theater). In Frihet! Sannhet! 116-130. Concludes
that despite JB's claim that modern theater must be anti-illusionist and politically leftist,
Semmelweis is neither.
Engelstad, Frederick. Knowledge and society: Holberg,
Ibsen and Bjørneboe. Trans. by Ann Clay Zwick. The Norseman 35 , no. 4-
5:17-25. The theme of society's resistance to new scientific knowledge in Ludvig Holberg's
Erasmus Montanus, Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People, and JB's
Semmelweis. Translated from an article in De nasjonale forskningsetiske komiteers
Skriftserie No 5 (1996), "Litteratur, forskning og etikk."
Garton, 80-83.
Hambro, 107-9.
Johannessen, Oddbjørn. "Det autoritære og 'svikerne'. En kortfattet
studie i en bjørnboesk temakrets med utgangspunkt i skuespillet
Semmelweis" (The authoritarian and the
"traitors" A brief study of a Bjørneboe thematic cycle taking off from
the play Semmelweis). Sørlandsk magasin 7 (1991):50-53.
Johannessen, Oddbjørn. "Skuespillet Semmelweis av Jens
Bjørneboe: en lesemate." Dissertation, Univ. of Oslo.1986.
Masat, András. "Jens Bjørneboe und 'der verrückte
Ungar'. Zu einer Traditionslinie in der norwegischen Literatur anhand Bjørneboes Drama
Semmelweis" (JB and "the mad Hungarian": on a strand of Norwegian
literary tradition as seen in JB's drama Semmelweis). In Über Brücken:
Festschrift fü Ulrik Groenke zum 65. Geburtstag, edited by Knut Brynhildsvoll,
381-395. Hamburg: Buske Verlag, 1989.
Hoel, Kristin. "Avvikeren og staten" (The deviant and the state).
Vinduet 40 (1986), no 2:34-36.
Martin, 124-126.
Mürer, Esther Greenleaf. "Mad scientists and Moral Outrage: the Genesis
of Jens Bjørneboe's Amputation." In Bjørneboe, Jens.
Amputation: Texts for an Extraordinary Spectacle. Los Angeles: Xenos Books, 2003,
143-166.
Wandrup 135f.
Tilfellet Torgersen (The Torgersen Case).
Oslo: Pax Forlag, 1973.
Garton, 84f
Grundt Spang, Michael. Torgersen Saken. Oslo, Cappelen, 1973. An account
of the case on which the play was based. Sharply critical of Bjørneboe's role in bringing
it up again.
Martin, 126f.
Otnes, 42f.
Wandrup, 97f, 136.
Dongery (Blue Jeans). Oslo: Pax Forlag, 1976.
Garton, 85f .
Martin, 127f.
Wandrup, 136.
Two plays written for Steiner School pupils
"Joseph and his Brothers" (Joseph og hans brødre, 1956) In
Under en Mykere Himmel, edited by André Bjerke. 117-29. (Oslo: Gyldendal,
1976.) Originally published in Ordet no.3 (1956).
"Raneiro" (based on "Ljuslåan" by Selma
Lagerlöf). In Under en Mykere Himmel, 130-45. Originally published in
Ordet no.1 (1957).
Bjørneboe, Jens. "To år ved en Rudolf Steinerskole," Part
II. (Two years at a Rudolf Steiner School, Part II:
Legends
and animal fables) Originally published in Ny skole No. 4, 1953. reprinted in
Under en Mykere Himmel (Oslo: Gyldendal, 1976). Samlede Essays:
Pedagogikk, 45-64. Retells the story of Raniero.
Martin 109, 173 n.16.
Wandrup 57.
UNFINISHED AND UNPRODUCED
WORKS
Rød Emma (Red Emma) Unfinished. Published fragment (Oslo:
Forlaget Bjørnsons Grav, 1976) withdrawn after protest from Bjørneboe's
estate.
Garton, 86.
Martin, 105; 172, n15.
Wandrup, 139.
Ingen Har Sett Oss (No One Has Seen Us) Written 1958; never performed or
published.
Wandrup 122f.
Håvard Isafjordings saga (Alternate title: Sommeren 970.)
Screenplay. Collaboration with Pål Løkkeberg. Late 1960s. Unproduced.
"Nei til Løkkeberg-Bjørneboe skaper ny filmstorm."
("No" to Løkkeberg-Bjørneboe creates new film storm).
Aftenposten 4 June 1970, 4.
Wandrup 138.
Før Hanen Galer (Ere the Cock Crows) 1950. Unproduced; reworked
as a novel. Original play lost.