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Ibsen's Selected Plays

A Norton Critical Edition
By Henrik Ibsen
Series: Norton Critical Editions
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Ibsen's Selected Plays presents five seminal works by Henrik Ibsen, translated by Brian Johnston and Rick Davis. It includes Peer Gynt, The Wild Duck, The Master Builder, A Doll House, and Hedda Gabler, capturing the breadth of Ibsen's dramatic career. This Norton Critical Edition enriches the plays with a unique translation of Peer Gynt, alongside essays and documents that explore Ibsen's creative process and critical reception.
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Ideal for students, scholars, and enthusiasts of drama and literary studies, particularly those interested in modern European theatre and Ibsen's influential role within it.

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Ibsen ascended to the first ranks of European writers in the late nineteenth century and has remained there ever since.

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The Norton Critical Edition includes five major plays spanning Ibsen's long career in recent translations by Brian Johnston (Peer Gynt, The Wild Duck, and The Master Builder) and Brian Johnston and Rick Davis (A Doll House and Hedda Gabler). The translation of Peer Gynt appears for the first time in this Norton Critical Edition.

Backgrounds gives students an understanding of Ibsen's creative process with selections from his correspondence and other writings. Twenty-seven documents have been collected and arranged by play, with a section of autobiographical writings at the end.

Ibsen's plays continue to provoke diverse commentary. Criticism includes nineteen of the most important responses to Ibsen's work, among them essays by Bernard Shaw, Sandra Saari, E. M. Forster, Hugh Kenner, and Joan Templeton.

A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

Series: Norton Critical Editions

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780393924046

Publisher: WW Norton & Co

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 10 June 2003

Country: United States

Imprint: WW Norton & Co

Edition: Critical edition

Contributors:

  • Edited by Brian Johnston

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 38.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 516g

Pages: 640

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Arts & Culture Henrik Ibsen Non-Fiction Series: Norton Critical Editions

About the Author

Brian Johnston is Professor of Dramatic Literature at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of To the Third Empire: Ibsen’s Early Drama, Text and Supertext in Ibsen’s Drama and The Ibsen Cycle. He is translator, with Rick Davis, of Ibsen: Volume I: Four Major Plays and translator of Ibsen: Volume II: Four Major Plays.

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