Ghosts and Other Plays
by:
Henrik Ibsen (author)
Counted among the very greatest dramatists, Ibsen (1828-1906) profoundly influenced the modern stage. Of the three plays in this volume, Ghosts and A Public Enemy are social dramas of his middle period; and the former, described by one London critic as 'an open sewer', raised the greatest outcry...
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Counted among the very greatest dramatists, Ibsen (1828-1906) profoundly influenced the modern stage.
Of the three plays in this volume, Ghosts and A Public Enemy are social dramas of his middle period; and the former, described by one London critic as 'an open sewer', raised the greatest outcry of all Ibsen's attacks on convention. When we Dead Wake, his last play, handles in a symbolic manner the individual's inner conflict and, incidentally, provides the dramatist's own comment on his lifework and his renunciation of verse.
Peter Watt's translation successfully maintains the natural ring of the Norwegian dialogue.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140441352 (140441352)
Publish date: 30-06-1964
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
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