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The Master Builder and Other Plays (Paperback, Ed)
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The Master Builder and Other Plays (Paperback, Ed)
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Ibsen's greatest late plays in superb modern translations, part of
the new Penguin Ibsen series. This volume includes The Master
Builder, Little Eyolf, John Gabriel Borkman and When We Dead Awaken
- Ibsen's last four plays, written in his old age in Oslo. In The
Master Builder, a married, middle-aged architect becomes bewitched
by a strange young woman who claims to have known him for years. A
sudden death in Little Eyolf is the catalyst that drives a couple
into a greater understanding of themselves. In John Gabriel
Borkman, a banker recently released from prison must choose between
his wife and her sister, while a sculptor on holiday is reunited
with the woman who inspired his greatest art in When We Dead
Awaken. The new Penguin series of Ibsen's major plays offer the
best available editions in English, under the general editorship of
Tore Rem. All the plays have been freshly translated by leading
translators and are based on the definitive Norwegian edition of
Ibsen's works. This volume includes an introduction by Toril Moi on
the themes of death and human limitation in the plays, and
additional editorial apparatus by Tore Rem. Henrik Ibsen
(1828-1906) is often called 'the Father of Modern Drama'. Born in
the small Norwegian town of Skien, he left Norway in 1864 for a
twenty-one-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 twelve-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. Her books include Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of
Modernism (2006). Tore Rem is Professor of British literature at
the University of Oslo and author of Henry Gibson/Henrik Ibsen
(2006).
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