Ibsen Plays
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
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Few dramatists have so thoroughly dismantled the comfortable illusions of bourgeois life as Henrik Ibsen, the father of modern drama, whose works continue to electrify audiences more than a century after their composition. This Penguin Classics collection gathers some of his most celebrated stage works — including A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, and The Master Builder — placing readers at the centre of drawing rooms where secrets fester, ambitions corrode, and the social contract is exposed as a cage built from convention and shame. Written across the latter half of the nineteenth century, these Norwegian masterpieces chronicle the quiet catastrophes of ordinary people driven to extraordinary acts of defiance, despair, or self-destruction. Ibsen's genius lies in his surgical precision: his dialogue carries the weight of everything left unsaid, and his characters wrestle with questions of freedom, identity, and moral responsibility that remain urgently contemporary. His influence on Shaw, Chekhov, Miller, and virtually every serious playwright who followed is immeasurable, and this volume stands as an essential introduction to a body of work that permanently transformed what theatre could be and say. Read it and discover why, when Ibsen's curtain falls, the audience is never quite the same.
Author: Henrik Ibsen
Format: Paperback
Genre: Plays
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few dramatists have so thoroughly dismantled the comfortable illusions of bourgeois life as Henrik Ibsen, the father of modern drama, whose works continue to electrify audiences more than a century after their composition. This Penguin Classics collection gathers some of his most celebrated stage works — including A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, and The Master Builder — placing readers at the centre of drawing rooms where secrets fester, ambitions corrode, and the social contract is exposed as a cage built from convention and shame. Written across the latter half of the nineteenth century, these Norwegian masterpieces chronicle the quiet catastrophes of ordinary people driven to extraordinary acts of defiance, despair, or self-destruction. Ibsen's genius lies in his surgical precision: his dialogue carries the weight of everything left unsaid, and his characters wrestle with questions of freedom, identity, and moral responsibility that remain urgently contemporary. His influence on Shaw, Chekhov, Miller, and virtually every serious playwright who followed is immeasurable, and this volume stands as an essential introduction to a body of work that permanently transformed what theatre could be and say. Read it and discover why, when Ibsen's curtain falls, the audience is never quite the same.