Ibsen Plays: 2

By: Henrik Ibsen; Henrik Ibsen; Michael Meyer; Henrik Ibsen; Michael Meyer;

Language: English

Quality: Good

Genre: Classics,

ISBN: 9780413463401

SKU: BE500267912149

Pages: 336

Description: NOTE: MINOR BROWNING OF PAGES DUE TO AGE.INSIDE CONDITION IS GOOD. This volume contains Ibsen's two most famous and frequently read, studied and performed plays about women: A Doll's House (1879), his first international success, which 'exploded like a bomb into contemporary life', and Hedda Gabler (1890), now one of his most popular plays, but greeted at first with bewilderment and outrage ('The play is simply a bad escape of moral sewage-gas' Pictorial World). Also included is An Enemy of the People (1883), whose central character was the actor Konstantin Stanislavski's favourite role. Michael Meyer's translations are 'crisp and cobweb-free, purged of verbal Victoriana' (Kenneth Tynan)