Ibsen Plays: 2: A Doll's House; An Enemy of the People; Hedda Gabler (World Classics) - Softcover

Ibsen, Henrik; Meyer, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0413463400 ISBN 13: 9780413463401

Publisher: Methuen Drama, 1980

Synopsis

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)

About this title

From the Back Cover:

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. Also included is An Enemy of the People (1883), whose central character was the actor Konstantin Stanislavski's favourite role.

About the Author:

Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen was born in 1828. His plays include Peer Gynt (1867), A Doll's House (1879), Ghosts (1881), An Enemy of the People (1882), Hedda Gabler (1890), and The Master Builder (1892). He died in 1906.

About this edition

• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0413463400
• ISBN 13: 9780413463401
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336