Ibsen Plays: 5

Ibsen Plays: 5: Brand; Emperor and Galilean

Henrik Ibsen (author)

The two epic plays in this volume stand, together with Peer Gynt and The Pretenders, at the fulcrum of Ibsen's career. Brand (1865) stated sharply and vividly the necessity of following one's private conscience and 'being oneself'. It created an immediate sensation and was hailed by Strindberg as 'the voice of a Savonarola'. Emperor and Galilean (1873), which Ibsen referred to as his masterpiece, is both his farewell to the epic drama and the forerunner of his great naturalistic prose plays that were to burst on the nineteenth century.

Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) has been described as 'the father of modern theatre'. Most of his early plays were traditional historical dramas. After 'Peer Gynt', a fairy-tale fantasy in verse, Ibsen wrote the rest of his plays in prose, and came to be regarded as the great Naturalist dramatist.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Methuen Drama; Reprint edition (9 Jan. 1986)
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 302 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0413604903
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.85 x 1.75 x 19.84 cm