Ibsen Plays: 2

Download or read book Ibsen Plays: 2 written by Henrik Ibsen and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains Ibsen's two most famous and frequently read, studied and performed plays about women: A Doll's House (1879), his first international success, which 'exploded like a bomb into contemporary life', and Hedda Gabler (1890), now one of his most popular plays, but greeted at first with bewilderment and outrage ('The play is simply a bad escape of moral sewage-gas' Pictorial World). Also included is An Enemy of the People (1883), whose central character was the actor Konstantin Stanislavski's favourite role.Michael Meyer's translations are 'crisp and cobweb-free, purged of verbal Victoriana' (Kenneth Tynan)