Name: Ibsen Plays: "Ghosts", the "Wild Duck", the "Master Builder" vol 1 (World Classics)
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Author: Henrik Ibsen
ISBN: 9780413463302

portada Ibsen Plays: "Ghosts", the "Wild Duck", the "Master Builder" vol 1 (World Classics)

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Author

Henrik Ibsen

Synopsis "Ibsen Plays: "Ghosts", the "Wild Duck", the "Master Builder" vol 1 (World Classics)"

The plays in this volume range from the once shockingly realistic Ghosts (1881), 'the play that launched a thousand ships of critical fury'; through The Wild Duck (1884) with its innovatory symbolism and its touching portrait of a fourteen-year-old girl held in thrall by her feckless father ('Where,' asked George Bernard Shaw, 'shall I find an epithet magnificent enough for The Wild Duck?'); to The Master Builder (1892), showing the semi-autobiographical relationship between an ageing genius and a dynamic young woman. Michael Meyer's translations are 'crisp and cobweb-free, purged of verbal Victoriana' (Kenneth Tynan)