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Four Plays - Ibsen by Henrik Ibsen
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
With an Introduction by Ellen Rees, Centre for Ibsen Studies, University of Oslo. The plays of Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) are critically acclaimed throughout the world. The father of modern drama, Ibsen broke with theatrical conventions and created a more realistic form of drama th ...Show more
Ghosts, A Public Enemy, When We Dead Wake by Henrik Ibsen
Category: Politics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
A collection of plays that focus on the family and how it struggles to stay together by telling lies - and exposing them.
Hedda Gabler and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
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Hedda Gabler and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen; Deborah Dawkin (Translator); Erik Skuggevik (Translator)
Category: Non-Fiction
A collection of four plays by the famed playwright, including Hedda Gabler, which features one of the most infamous women characters in theater A Penguin Classic One of the most renowned playwrights of all time, Norwegian-born Henrik Ibsen was an influential figure in the development of realist ...Show more
Hedda Gabler/The Pillars of the Community/The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In these three unforgettably intense plays, Henrik Ibsen explores the problems of personal and social morality that he perceived in the world around him and, in particular, the complex nature of truth. The Pillars of the Community (1877) depicts a corrupt shipowner’s struggle to hide the sins of his pas ...Show more
Peer Gynt and Brand by Henrik Ibsen
Category: Non-Fiction
A new Penguin edition of Ibsen's two great verse plays, in masterful versions by one of our greatest living poets, Geoffrey Hill. These two powerful and contrasting verse dramas by Ibsen made his reputation as a playwright. The fantastical adventures of the irrepressible Peer Gynt - poet, idler, procras ...Show more
The Master Builder and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen
Category: Non-Fiction
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 when he was an old man and had recently returned to Oslo after decades o ...Show more