Hedda Gabler and Other Plays (Bantam Classic) - Softcover

Ibsen, Henrik

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553214470 ISBN 13: 9780553214475

Publisher: Bantam Classic & Loveswept, 1995

Synopsis

Four plays by a master dramatist include Hedda Gabler, a story of manipulation and obsession, the satirical Peer Gynt, the tragic Master Builder, and the thought-provoking Little Eyolf. Original.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The three plays in this volume cover the period during which Ibsen (1828-1906) was preoccupied with realistic problems of personal and social morality. In The Pillars of the Community, partly by means of symbolism, he exposes the effects of a lie told to preserve a man's public reputation. The solution - to admit the truth - scarcely seemed so simple seven years later, when Ibsen completed The Wild Duck in apparent disillusionment. Hedda Gabler, the latest of these plays, is both a drama of individual conflict and partial return to social themes.

About the Author:

Henrik Ibsen was born at Skien in Norway in 1828. He was one of the earliest writers to dramatise the individual's alienation from society. Although never fully appreciated during his lifetime, he has since come to be recognised as one of the greatest dramatists and the 'Father of Modern Drama'.

Una Ellis-Fernor has also translated other Ibsen works for the Penguin Classics.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Classic & Loveswept
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0553214470
• ISBN 13: 9780553214475
• Binding: Paperback