Ibsen Plays

4: John Gabriel Borkman; Pillars of Society; When We Dead Awaken

Henrik Ibsen, Michael Meyer

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Methuen Drama
01 August 2006

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Series: World Classics

"""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)"

By: Henrik Ibsen
Translated by: Michael Meyer
Imprint: Methuen Drama
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 320g
ISBN: 9780413463609
ISBN 10: 0413463605
Series: World Classics
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 01 August 2006
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

John Gabriel Borkman; Pillars of Society; When We Dead Awaken

Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) has been described as 'the father of modern theatre'. Most of his early plays were traditional historical dramas. After 'Peer Gynt', a fairy-tale fantasy in verse, Ibsen wrote the rest of his plays in prose, and came to be regarded as the great Naturalist dramatist.