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Loading... Four Major Plays: Volume 1: A Doll House; The Wild Duck; Hedda Gabler; The Master Builder (edition 1992)by Henrik Ibsen
Work InformationA Doll's House / Hedda Gabler / The Master-Builder / The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen (Author)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Ibsen is another writer I randomly picked up in college and have liked ever since. Amazon people recommend the McFarlane/Arup translation as the best, which has Ghosts rather than The Wild Duck. I'm not sure I read Master Builder, and I'll have to read Ghosts, but the other three made a lasting impression. Ibsen's not light, but he's easy to read and straightforward. Proto-feminism written by a guy? - I guess it's something like that and more. ( ) Infrequently one comes across a book, a writer, who is obviously many levels above the typical tripe and hacks passed off as literature or drama. Ibsen is certainly one of the those on a much higher plane. He is noticeably intrigued by women (A Doll House and Hedda Gabler) and explores their unique and sometimes irrational conduct (I know, only from a man's point of view) in depth. If you are interested in plays, start with Ibsen. Once I started a play I just could not put it down until finished. Highly recommended. 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. no reviews | add a review
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