Four Major Plays (Volume 1) - Softcover

Ibsen, Henrik

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451524063 ISBN 13: 9780451524065

Publisher: Penguin, 1992

Synopsis

Brilliantly exemplifying Henrik Ibsen's landmark contribution to the theater, this collection contains A Doll's House, The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler, and The Master Builder. Revised reissue.

About this title

About the Author:

Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) is one of the greatest dramatists of world literature. His verse dramas Brand (1865) and Peer Gynt (1867) brought him fame in Scandinavia, but he became known throughout the world with twelve prose plays in which he invented what is known as theatrical realism: Pillars of Society (1877), A Doll House (1879), Ghosts (1881), An Enemy of the People (1882), The Wild Duck (1884), Rosmersholm (1886), The Lady from the Sea (1888), Hedda Gabler (1890), The Master Builder (1892), Little Eyolf (1894), John Gabriel Borkman (1896), and When We Dead Awaken (1899). Ibsen made ordinary people, talking about contemporary things in everyday language, proper subjects for the stage, and in so doing earned the title "the father of modern drama." Ibsen is the second-most widely produced dramatist in the world after Shakespeare.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0451524063
• ISBN 13: 9780451524065
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 384