Ibsen Plays One

Ibsen Plays One: Ghosts, The Wild Duck, The Master Builder

Henrik Ibsen (author)

Translated by Michael Meyer

The plays in this volume range from the once shockingly realistic Ghosts (1881), 'the play that launched a thousand ships of critical fury'; through The Wild Duck (1884) with its innovatory symbolism and its touching portrait of a fourteen-year-old girl held in thrall by her feckless father ('Where,' asked George Bernard Shaw, 'shall I find an epithet magnificent enough for The Wild Duck?'); to The Master Builder (1892), showing the semi-autobiographical relationship between an ageing genius and a dynamic young woman. Michael Meyer's translations are 'crisp and cobweb-free, purged of verbal Victoriana' (Kenneth Tynan).

Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) was a Norwegian playwright and poet whose realistic, symbolic and often controversial plays revolutionised European theatre. He is widely regarded as the father of modern drama. His acclaimed plays include A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, An Enemy of the People and The Pillars of the Community. His centenary was celebrated in 2006.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Methuen Drama (25 Sept. 1980)
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0413463302
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 2.82 x 2.82 x 2.82 cm