The Master Builder and Other Plays
$51.31
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
18 November 2014
Summary
Ibsen’s Final Acts: A Collection of Late Masterpieces
This volume includes The Master Builder, Little Eyolf, John Gabriel Borkman and When We Dead Awaken - Ibsen’s last four plays, written when he was an old man and had recently returned to Oslo after decades of self-imposed exile.
In The Master Builder, a married, middle-aged architect whose best years are behind him becomes bewitched by a strange young woman who claims to have k…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141194592 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141194596 |
| Author: | Henrik Ibsen, Barbara Haveland, Anne-Marie Stanton-Ife, Tore Rem, Toril Moi |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 18 November 2014 |
| Weight: | 269g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 21mm |
About The Author
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) is often called ‘the Father of Modern Drama’. He was born in the small Norwegian town of Skien and started writing plays from an early age. In 1864 he left Norway for a 21-year-long voluntary exile in Italy and Germany. After successes with the verse dramas Brand and Peer Gynt, he turned to prose, writing his great 12-play cycle of society dramas between 1877 and 1899. This included The Pillars of Society, A Doll’s House, Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, The Wild Duck, Rosmersholm, The Lady from the Sea, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder, Little Eyolf, John Gabriel Borkman and, finally, When We Dead Awaken. Ibsen returned to Norway in 1891 and died there at the age of seventy-eight.
Barbara J. Haveland and Anne-Marie Stanton-Ife are both freelance literary translators.
Toril Moi is Professor of English, Theater Studies and Philosophy at Duke University.
Tore Rem is Professor of British literature at the University of Oslo.
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