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Ibsen Plays 1 - Ghosts & The Wild Duck & The Master Builder
Henrick Ibsen trans Michael Meyer Price: $27.95
The plays in this volume range from the once shockingly realistic Ghosts (1881), ‘the play that launched a thousand ships of critical fury’; through The Wild Duck (1884) with its innovatory symbolism and its touching portrait of a fourteen-year-old girl held in thrall by her feckless father (‘Where,’ asked George Bernard Shaw, ‘shall I find an epithet magnificent enough for The Wild Duck?’); to The Master Builder (1892), showing the semi-autobiographical relationship between an ageing genius and a dynamic young woman
Michael Meyer’s translations are ‘crisp and cobweb-free, purged of verbal Victoriana’ ~ Kenneth Tynan
“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
Ibsen Plays 1 - Ghosts & The Wild Duck & The Master Builder
Ibsen Plays 2 - A Doll’s House & An Enemy of the People & Hedda Gabler
Ibsen Plays 3 - Rosmersholm & The Lady From the Sea & Little Eyolf
