The Lady From The Sea
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good , price clipped
Markings: Previous owner
A landmark work of nineteenth-century drama, The Lady from the Sea presents one of Henrik Ibsen's most psychologically rich and symbolically layered plays, centering on Ellida Wangel, a doctor's wife living far from the coastal waters she calls home. Haunted by a mysterious sailor from her past who has returned to claim her, Ellida is torn between the pull of freedom and the security of her domestic life, and Ibsen uses her inner conflict to argue powerfully for the individual's right to choose their own destiny. The play unfolds with a quiet, brooding intensity, weaving together themes of longing, identity, and the sea as a force of both liberation and danger. Ibsen illustrates, with characteristic precision and emotional depth, how the constraints of marriage and society can become as suffocating as landlocked air to a spirit born for open water. Written in 1888, the work stands as a vital piece of the modern theatrical canon, anticipating the psychological realism that would define the drama of the century to come.
Author: Henrik Ibsen
Format: Hardback
Published: 1960, Rupert Hart-Davis
Genre: Plays
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good , price clipped
Markings: Previous owner
A landmark work of nineteenth-century drama, The Lady from the Sea presents one of Henrik Ibsen's most psychologically rich and symbolically layered plays, centering on Ellida Wangel, a doctor's wife living far from the coastal waters she calls home. Haunted by a mysterious sailor from her past who has returned to claim her, Ellida is torn between the pull of freedom and the security of her domestic life, and Ibsen uses her inner conflict to argue powerfully for the individual's right to choose their own destiny. The play unfolds with a quiet, brooding intensity, weaving together themes of longing, identity, and the sea as a force of both liberation and danger. Ibsen illustrates, with characteristic precision and emotional depth, how the constraints of marriage and society can become as suffocating as landlocked air to a spirit born for open water. Written in 1888, the work stands as a vital piece of the modern theatrical canon, anticipating the psychological realism that would define the drama of the century to come.