Four Major Plays: Volume 1: A Doll House; The Wild Duck; Hedda Gabler; The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen

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by Henrik Ibsen

Series: Ibsen: Four Major Plays (1)

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Info:	Signet Classics (1965), Mass Market Paperback, 384 pages
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A Doll House: 3-act play detailing the blackmailing for forgery of a housewife and mother of three by a failed lawyer. Dramatic focus is on the crisis’ awakening of Nora to her doll-like existence as an uneducated and patronized wife and her new determination to discover herself and the world by separating from her husband and children. Some sexual innuendo.

chosler | Jan 20, 2009 |

These plays are among Ibsen's finest and certainly most influential. Any study of 19th or early 20th century drama should include these works. No Ibsen scholar I, a thorough and complete assessment of these works eludes my abilities. Suffice it to say that drama grew up thanks to Ibsen. (

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Ibsen: Four Major Plays (1)

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1965

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To Borghild Dahl, writer and seer with the inner eye

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Foreword: It is one of those happy accidents of literary history that Henrik Ibsen's career as a dramatist neatly coincides with the latter half of the nineteenth century.

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0451524063, Mass Market Paperback)

Among the greatest and best known of Ibsen's works, these four plays--A Doll's House, The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder--brilliantly embody his landmark contributions to the theater. Rich in symbolism and often autobiographical, each work deals convincingly with the human emotions of greed, fear, and sexual hostility, and confronts the external conflicts between reality and illusion. Reissue.

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