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Four Major Plays Vol.1

Centennial Edition

Author: Henrik Ibsen, Rolf Fjelde and Joan Templeton   Series: Signet Classics (Hardcover)

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Brilliantly exemplifying Henrik Ibsen's landmark contribution to the theater, this collection contains "A Doll's House, The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler," and The Master Builder." Revised reissue.

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Brilliantly exemplifying Henrik Ibsen's landmark contribution to the theater, this collection contains "A Doll's House, The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler," and The Master Builder." Revised reissue.

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The greatest works by the father of modern theater.Brilliantly exemplifying his landmark contribution to the theater, A Doll House, The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler, and The Master Builder are truly the greatest and best known works of Henrik Ibsen.

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About the Author

Henrik Ibsen was born of well-to-do parents at Skien, a small Norwegian coastal town, on March 20, 1828. In 1836 his father went bankrupt, and the family was reduced to near poverty. At the age of fifteen, he was apprenticed to an apothecary in Grimstad. In 1850 Ibsen ventured to Christiania-present-day Oslo-as a student, with the hope of becoming a doctor. On the strength of his first two plays he was appointed 'theater-poet' to the new Bergen National Theater, where he wrote five conventional romantic and historical dramas and absorbed the elements of his craft.In 1857 he was called to the directorship of the financially unsound Christiania Norwegian Theater, which failed in 1862. In 1864, exhausted and enraged by the frustration of his efforts toward a national drama and theater, he quit Norway for what became twenty-seven years of voluntary exile abroad. In Italy he wrote the volcanic Brand (1866), which made his reputation and secured him a poet's stipend from the government. Its companion piece, the phantasmagoric Peer Gynt, followed in 1867, then the immense double play, Emperor and Galilean (1873), expressing his philosophy of civilization.Meanwhile, having moved to Germany, Ibsen had been searching for a new style. With The Pillars of Society he found it; this became the first of twelve plays, appearing at two-year intervals, that confirmed his international standing as the foremost dramatist of his age. In 1900 Ibsen suffered the first of several strokes that incapacitated him. He died in Oslo on May 23, 1906.

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Publisher
Penguin Putnam Inc | Signet Classics
Published
6th June 2006
Edition
2nd
Pages
432
ISBN
9780451530226

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