Ibsen Plays: 1: Ghosts; The Wild Duck; The Master Builder (World Classics)

Ibsen Plays: 1: Ghosts; The Wild Duck; The Master Builder (World Classics) image
ISBN-10:

0413463303

ISBN-13:

9780413463302

Edition: 0
Released: Sep 25, 1980
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
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Description:

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)












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