The Lady From The Sea
by Henrik Ibsen
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The Lady From The Sea (1888) marked a turning-point in Ibsen's writing career as it, and the plays that followed it, concerned itself more with individual destinies than with general moral or social principles. In this new translation, Pam Gems (best known for plays such as Piaf, Stanley, Camille and Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi) gives this classic drama a refreshing new life. The Lady From The Sea was performed at the Almeida Theatre, 8th May 2003.Tags
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Ellida Wangel får en sønn som dør som spedbarn. Hun har tidligere vært forlovet med en sjømann, den Fremmede. Hun innser etter hvert at hun må velge om hun vil dele livet sitt med Wangel eller den Fremmede. I hovedrollene: Gørild Mauseth, Bjørn Skagestad, Heidi Gjermundsen, Lasse Kolsrud, Kåre Conradi, Andrea Bræin Hovig og Jan Hårstad.
Ellida Wangel får en sønn som dør som spedbarn. Hun har tidligere vært forlovet med en sjømann, den Fremmede. Hun innser etter hvert at hun må velge om hun vil dele livet sitt med Wangel eller den Fremmede. I hovedrollene: Gørild Mauseth, Bjørn Skagestad, Heidi Gjermundsen, Lasse Kolsrud, Kåre Conradi, Andrea Bræin Hovig og Jan Hårstad.
A lighthouse keeper's daughter lives her opportunistic marital life until her past lover appears in her life: a sailor, the Stranger. She eventually realizes that she must choose whether she wants to share her life with the former or the latter.
Jul 31, 2025English (UK)
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Author Information
Henrik Ibsen, poet and playwright was born in Skein, Norway, in 1828. His creative work spanned 50 years, from 1849-1899, and included 25 plays and numerous poems. During his middle, romantic period (1840-1875), Ibsen wrote two important dramatic poems, Brand and Peer Gynt, while the period from 1875-1899 saw the creation of 11 realistic plays show more with contemporary settings, the most famous of which are A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, and The Wild Duck. Henrik Ibsen died in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway in 1906. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Pillars of Society / A Doll House / Ghosts / An Enemy of the People / The Wild Duck / Rosmersholm / The Lady from the Sea / Hedda Gabler / The Master Builder / Little Eyolf / John Gabriel Borkman / When We Dead Awaken by Henrik Ibsen
Werke 3 : Peer Gynt, Die Frau vom Meer, Rosmersholm, Die Wildente, Nordische Heerfahrt by Henrik Ibsen
The Wild Duck / Pillars of Society / The Lady from the Sea / Little Eyolf / John Gabriel Borkman / When We Dead Awaken by Henrik Ibsen
A Doll's House / Ghosts / Hedda Gabler / The Master Builder / An Enemy of the People / The Lady from the Sea by Henrik Ibsen
A Doll’s House / Ghosts / An Enemy of the People / The Wild Duck / Rosmersholm / The Lady from the Sea / Hedda Gabler / The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen
An Enemy of the People / The Wild Duck / Rosmersholm / The Lady From The Sea / The Master Builder / When We Dead Awaken by Henrik Ibsen
The Lady From The Sea / Hedda Gabler / The Master Builder / Little Eyolf / John Gabriel Borkman / When We Dead Awaken by Henrik Ibsen
I capolavori: I pilastri della società-Casa di bambola-Spettri-Un nemico del popolo-La casa dei Rosmer-La donna del mare-Hedda Gabler. Ediz. integrale by Henrik Ibsen
Teatru vol. 3 - Rata salbatica. Rosmersholm. Femeia marii. Hedda Gabler. Constructorul Solness. by Henrik Ibsen
Una cassa di bambola - Spettri - L'anitra selvatica - Peer Gynt - La fattoria Rosmer - La do nna del mare - Hedda Gabler - Quando noi morti ci destiamo by Henrik Ibsen
Samfundets støtter. Et dukkehjem. Gengangere. En folkefiende. Vildanden. Rosmersholm. Fruen fra havet. Hedda Gabler. By by Henrik Ibsen
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- The Lady From The Sea
- Original title
- Fruen fra havet
- Original publication date
- 1888
- People/Characters*
- Dokter Wangel; Ellida; Bolette; Hilde; Arnholm; Lyngstrand (show all 7); Ballested
- Important places*
- Noorwegen
- Epigraph
- ‘Love is a deadly business. It throws us up against ourselves, leaves us hanging there.’
Vivian Gornick - First words*
- Dokter Wangels huis met links een groote overdekte veranda.
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Ellida (snel, hem de hand reikend). Juist, dát is het. (De groote boot glijdt geluidloos weg over de fjord. De muziek weerklinkt dichterbij aan land).
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- Fiction and Literature
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- 839.8226 — Literature & rhetoric German & related literatures Other Germanic literatures Danish and Norwegian literatures Norwegian literature Norwegian drama 1800–1899
- LCC
- PT8864 — Language and Literature German, Dutch and Scandinavian literatures Norwegian literature Individual authors or works 19th century Ibsen, Henrik
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