Peer Gynt and Brand

Author: Henrik Ibsen
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141970790
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 419

Book Description
A new Penguin edition of Ibsen's two great verse plays, in masterful versions by one of our greatest living poets, Geoffrey Hill. These two powerful and contrasting verse dramas by Ibsen made his reputation as a playwright. The fantastical adventures of the irrepressible Peer Gynt - poet, idler, procrastinator, seducer - draw on Norwegian folklore to conjure up mountains, kidnappings, shipwrecks and trolls in an exuberant examination of truth and the self; while Brand, an unsparing vision of an idealistic priest who lives by his steely faith, explores free will and sacrifice. This volume brings together the poet Geoffrey Hill's acclaimed stage version of Brand with a new poetic rendering of Peer Gynt, published for the first time. This Penguin edition includes an interview with Geoffrey Hill about recreating Ibsen in English, an introduction by Janet Garton and editorial materials by Tore Rem.

Peer Gynt

Author: Henrik Ibsen
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486426866
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
Among the masterpieces of world literature, this great verse drama by Norway's famed playwright humorously yet profoundly explores the virtues, vices, and follies common to all humanity as it follows the roguish life of a charming but arrogant young man. A literary delight since it was first published in 1875.

Ibsen's Kingdom

Author: Evert Sprinchorn
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300256248
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 684

Book Description
A major biography of one of the most important figures in modern drama, evoked through a biographical reading of his playsNorwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen achieved unparalleled success in his lifetime and remains one of the most important figures in modern drama. The culmination of a lifetime of scholarship, Evert Sprinchorn’s biography constructs Ibsen’s life through a biographical reading of his plays with provocative and insightful analyses of his works, placing them and their author within the social, political, and intellectual foment of nineteenth-century Europe. This thought-provoking book will captivate anyone interested in the history of drama and the foundations of modernism.

Henrik Ibsen

Author: Ivo de Figueiredo
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300245025
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 721

Book Description
A magnificent new biography of Henrik Ibsen, among the greatest of modern playwrights Henrik Ibsen (1820–1908) is arguably the most important playwright of the nineteenth century. Globally he remains the most performed playwright after Shakespeare, and Hedda Gabler, A Doll’s House, Peer Gynt, and Ghosts are all masterpieces of psychological insight. This is the first full-scale biography to take a literary as well as historical approach to the works, life, and times of Ibsen. Ivo de Figueiredo shows how, as a man, Ibsen was drawn toward authoritarianism, was absolute in his judgments over others, and resisted the ideas of equality and human rights that formed the bases of the emerging democracies in Europe. And yet as an artist, he advanced debates about the modern individual’s freedom and responsibility—and cultivated his own image accordingly. Where other biographies try to show how the artist creates the art, this book reveals how, in Ibsen’s case, the art shaped the artist.

Hedda Gabler and Other Plays

Author: Henrik Ibsen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780141195216
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 368

Book Description
In these three unforgettably intense plays, Henrick Ibsen explores the problems of personal and social morality that he perceived in the world around him and, in particular, the complex nature of truth.

A Doll's House, and Other Plays

Author: Henrik Ibsen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456

Book Description

The Ibsen Cycle

Author: Brian Johnston
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271008097
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 440

Book Description
'Attempting no less a task than to demonstrate that Ibsen planned his last twelve plays, beginning with Pillars of Society, as a cycle paralleling exactly Hegel's account of the evolution of the human consciousness, The Phenomenology of Mind, Johnston offers a fresh look at the Norwegian master. Although there is little specific biographical data in support of the author's thesis, he argues compellingly for it in his analysis of the texts themselves. After discussing Hegel's dramatic method of exposition and Ibsen's philosophy, Johnston examines each of the twelve plays in considerable detail. Provocative and sophisticated in its approach, this volume should be widely available to scholars and advanced students of modern drama. ---Library Journal

Public Enemy

Author: Henrik Ibsen
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571308244
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 90

Book Description
When Dr. Stockmann discovers that the waters of a new public spa are toxic, he expects gratitude and glory. Instead, his revelation makes him the most hated man in town. Henrik Ibsen's timeless story of corruption, pollution and courage opened in David Harrower's powerful new version at the Young Vic, London, in May 2013.

Four Major Plays

Author: Henrik Ibsen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199536198
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 385

Book Description
This collection of plays is taken from the Oxford Ibsen, James McFarlane's acclaimed scholarly edition.

The Complete Major Prose Plays

Author: Henrik Ibsen
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN: 9780374174149
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1143

Book Description
Ibsen's twelve outstanding plays, from Pillars of Society to When We Dead Awaken, are accompanied by brief introductions illuminating the distinctive features of each