A Doll's House and Other Plays: With Pillars of the Community, Ghosts and an Enemy of the People (Penguin Classics)

A Doll's House and Other Plays: With Pillars of the Community, Ghosts and an Enemy of the People (Penguin Classics)

by Deborah Dawkin (Translator), Deborah Dawkin (Translator), Henrik Ibsen (Author), Erik Skuggevik (Translator), Tore Rem (Editor)

Synopsis

Four of Ibsen's most important plays in superb modern translations, part of the new Penguin Ibsen series. With her assertion that she is 'first and foremost a human being', Nora Helmer sent shockwaves throughout Europe when she appeared in Ibsen's greatest and most famous play, A Doll's House. Depicting one woman's struggle to be treated as a rational human being, and not merely a wife, mother or fragile doll, the play changed the course of theatrical history and sparked debates worldwide about the roles of men and women in society. Ibsen's follow-up Ghosts was no less radical, with its unrelenting investigation into religious hypocrisy, family secrets and sexual double-dealing. These two masterpieces are accompanied here by The Pillars of Society and An Enemy of the People, both set in Norwegian coastal towns and exploring the tensions and dark compromises at the heart of society. The new Penguin series of Ibsen's major plays offer the best available editions in English, under the general editorship of Tore Rem. The plays have been freshly translated by the best modern translators and are based on the recently published, definitive Norwegian edition of Ibsen's works. They all include new introductions and editorial apparatus by leading scholars.

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Format: paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published:

ISBN 10: 0141194561
ISBN 13: 9780141194561
Book Overview: This new translation, the first to be based on the latest critical edition of Ibsen's works, offers the best version available in English.

Author Bio
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) is often called 'the Father of Modern Drama'. Born in Norway, he left his homeland in 1864 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 A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder, and, finally, When We Dead Awaken. Deborah Dawkin is a researcher at University College London and the British Library. She has been a literary translator from Norwegian for the last ten years. Erik Skuggevik is a lecturer in Translation Studies at the University of Surrey and the University of Westminister.