{"product_id":"2026100009964-secondhand-four-plays","title":"Four Plays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Excellent\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket - cloth\/board in good condition\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew voices in Western drama have cut as deeply into the human condition as Henrik Ibsen's, and Four Plays gathers four of his most devastating and enduring works into a single, essential volume. Translated with exceptional grace and fidelity by Eva Le Gallienne — herself one of the 20th century's most celebrated theatrical figures — and illustrated by Tony Eubanks, this collection presents Ibsen's searing portraits of social hypocrisy, thwarted ambition, and private anguish with all their original power intact. Whether chronicling Nora Helmer's landmark awakening in A Doll's House, the corrosive secrets of Ghosts, the towering idealism of Hedda Gabler, or the moral reckoning at the heart of The Master Builder, Ibsen constructs worlds of suffocating social pressure from which his characters cannot escape without cost.\n\nIbsen's genius lies in his surgical precision: beneath the respectable surfaces of bourgeois life, he uncovers rot, compromise, and desperate longing, crafting dialogue that feels simultaneously like naturalistic conversation and charged poetry. Le Gallienne's translation captures this dual register with rare sensitivity, honouring the playwright's Nordic austerity while rendering his wit and cruelty vividly accessible to English-speaking audiences. Recognised as the father of modern realist drama, Ibsen's influence on Chekhov, Shaw, O'Neill, and every serious playwright who followed cannot be overstated — and this handsome Franklin Library edition argues, through its very existence, that these plays belong among the great monuments of world literature. To open this volume is to ask whether any of us, confronted with the same walls Ibsen builds around his characters, would find the courage to walk out the door.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49161016508635,"sku":"2026100009964-SECONDHAND","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/1303bb8f-c019-4b8d-8448-2ca3f43cb50d.png?v=1787189098","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009964-secondhand-four-plays","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}