Ibsen Plays (v. 4)

"Meyer's translations of Ibsen are a major fact in one's general sense of post-war drama. Their vital pace, their unforced insistence on the poetic centre of Ibsen's genius, have beaten academic versions from the field" (George Steiner) The plays shine freshly from the pages ...This will be our definitive Ibsen." (JC Trewin) This volume contains Ibsen's first great modern prose play and his two last symbolic dramas. The Pillars of Society, written between 1875 and 1877, exhibits many of the classic elements which recur in the subsequent plays - a marriage founded on a lie, women stunted by social conventions, an arrogant man destroying the happiness of those around him. John Gabriel Borkman (1896), according to Edvard Munch, is "the most powerful winter landscape in Scandinavian art"; and Ibsen's last play, When We Dead Awaken (1899), also dealing with "the coldness of heart", showed, said Bernard Shaw, "no decay of Ibsen's highest qualities. His magic is nowhere more potent.Michael Meyer's translations are 'crisp and cobweb-free, purged of verbal Victoriana' (Kenneth Tynan)

ISBN 0413463605   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780413463609 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 314 Publisher A & C Black Publishers Ltd   Language English, Norwegian Imprint Methuen Drama   Published in London Format Paperback   Series editor Osborne, Neville N., Osborne, Neville N., Osborne, Neville N. Publication date 25 Sep 1980   Series ISSN 0956-463 Translator M. Meyer   Series title World Classics Library of Congress PT   Height (mm) 203 DEWEY 839.8226   Width (mm) 127 DEWEY edition DC21   Spine width (mm) 15 Pages 272   Academic level General, Tertiary education Part volume "John Gabriel Borkman", "Pillars of Society" and "When We Dead Awaken"

		Henrik Johan Ibsen: A Chronology		6
		Introduction to the Pillars of Society		10
		The Pillars of Society		23
		Introduction to John Gabriel Borkman		123
		John Gabriel Borkman		133
		Introduction to When We Dead Awaken		205
		When We Dead Awaken		215
		Note on the Translations		269

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