| Description |
xxi, 612 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
A Norton critical edition |
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Norton critical edition.
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| Contents |
Texts of the plays / Peer Gynt -- Realist cycle: Doll house -- Wild duck -- Hedda Gabler -- Master builder -- Backgrounds -- Correspondence and documents: Peer Gynt: To Björnstjerne Björnson, 9 December 1867 -- To Björrnstjerne Björnson, 28 December 1867 -- To Edward Grieg, 23 January 1874 -- To Ludwig Passarge, 16 June 1880 -- To Edmund Gosse, 15 January 1874 -- Doll house: Alternative German ending -- To the Nationaltidende, 17 February 1880 -- To Heinrich Laube, 18 February 1880 -- To Moritz Prozor, 23 January 1 -- Speech at the banquet of the Norwegian League for Women's Rights -- Wild Duck: To Frederik Hegel, 2 September 1884 -- To Hans Schrøder, 14 November 1884 -- To August Lindberg, 22 November 1884 -- Hedda Gabler: To Moritz Prozor, 4 December 1890 -- To Hans Schrøder, 27 December 1890 -- To Kristina Steen, 14 January 1891 -- Autobiographical -- Sketch of Childhood: To Magdalene Thoresen, 3 December 1865 -- To Björnstjerne Björnson, 28 January 1865 -- To Georg(e) Brandes, 20 December 1870 -- To Georg(e) Brandes, 17 February 1871-- To Georg(e) Brandes, 24 September 1871 -- To Georg(e) Brandes, 30 April 1873 -- To John Paulsen, 20 September 1879 -- To Georg(e) Brandes, 11 October 1896 -- To Georg(e) Brandes, 3 June 1897 -- To the Reader -- Criticism: Peer Gynt -- W.H. Auden -- Genius and apostle -- Doll house: Doll's house again / Bernard Shaw -- Introduction to a doll house / Rolf Fjelde -- Female become human: Nora transformed / Sandra Saari -- Wild duck: Søfuglen (Sea Bird) / J.S. Welhaven -- Letter to Clara Rilke / Rainer Maria Rilke -- Style as vision: Wild duck, child abuse, and history / Michael Goldman -- Hedda Gabler: On the occasion of Hedda Gabler / Henry James -- Master builder: On the occasion of the master builder / Henry James -- Plot and story in the master builder / Brian Johnston -- General themes: Poetry in the round / Einar Haugen -- Ibsen's symbolism defined / Jennette Lee -- From the Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge / Rainer Maria Rilke -- Ibsen the Romantic / E.M. Forster -- Joyce and Ibsen's naturalism / Hugh Kenner -- From the Death of Tragedy / George Steiner -- From Henrik Ibsen / G. Wilson Knight -- Smiling Ibsen: Comedy and romance in three plays of the prose cycle / Rick Davis -- Genre, representation, and the politics of dramatic form: Ibsen's realism / Joan Templeton -- Henrik Ibsen: Chronology. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 609-612). |
| Summary |
Collects five plays spanning Ibsen's career, with general introductions, explanatory annotations, criticism, and selections from his correspondence and other writings. |
| Subject |
Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906 -- Translations into English.
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| Added Author |
Johnston, Brian, 1932-2013
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| Added Title |
Plays. Selections. English
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| ISBN |
0393924041 paperback |
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9780393924046 paperback |
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