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Ibsen's selected plays : authoritative texts of Peer Gynt, A doll house, The wild duck, Hedda Gabler, The master builder : backgrounds, criticism /

By: Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906.
Contributor(s): Johnston, Brian, 1932-.
Series: A Norton critical edition.Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, c2004Description: xxi, 612 p. ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780393924046 (pbk.); 9780393924046:.Subject(s): Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906 -- Criticism | Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906 -- Translations into English | Norwegian drama -- Translations into EnglishDDC classification: 839.8226
Contents:
Texts of the plays / Peer Gynt -- Realist cycle: Doll house -- Wild duck -- Hedda Gabler -- Master builder -- Backgrounds -- Correspondence and documents: Peer Gynt: To Björnstjerne Björnson, 9 December 1867 -- To Björrnstjerne Björnson, 28 December 1867 -- To Edward Grieg, 23 January 1874 -- To Ludwig Passarge, 16 June 1880 -- To Edmund Gosse, 15 January 1874 -- Doll house: Alternative German ending -- To the Nationaltidende, 17 February 1880 -- To Heinrich Laube, 18 February 1880 -- To Moritz Prozor, 23 January 1 -- Speech at the banquet of the Norwegian League for Women's Rights -- Wild Duck: To Frederik Hegel, 2 September 1884 -- To Hans Schrøder, 14 November 1884 -- To August Lindberg, 22 November 1884 -- Hedda Gabler: To Moritz Prozor, 4 December 1890 -- To Hans Schrøder, 27 December 1890 -- To Kristina Steen, 14 January 1891 -- Autobiographical -- Sketch of Childhood: To Magdalene Thoresen, 3 December 1865 -- To Björnstjerne Björnson, 28 January 1865 -- To Georg(e) Brandes, 20 December 1870 -- To Georg(e) Brandes, 17 February 1871-- To Georg(e) Brandes, 24 September 1871 -- To Georg(e) Brandes, 30 April 1873 -- To John Paulsen, 20 September 1879 -- To Georg(e) Brandes, 11 October 1896 -- To Georg(e) Brandes, 3 June 1897 -- To the Reader -- Criticism: Peer Gynt -- W.H. Auden -- Genius and apostle -- Doll house: Doll's house again / Bernard Shaw -- Introduction to a doll house / Rolf Fjelde -- Female become human: Nora transformed / Sandra Saari -- Wild duck: Søfuglen (Sea Bird) / J.S. Welhaven -- Letter to Clara Rilke / Rainer Maria Rilke -- Style as vision: Wild duck, child abuse, and history / Michael Goldman -- Hedda Gabler: On the occasion of Hedda Gabler / Henry James -- Master builder: On the occasion of the master builder / Henry James -- Plot and story in the master builder / Brian Johnston -- General themes: Poetry in the round / Einar Haugen -- Ibsen's symbolism defined / Jennette Lee -- From the Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge / Rainer Maria Rilke -- Ibsen the Romantic / E.M. Forster -- Joyce and Ibsen's naturalism / Hugh Kenner -- From the Death of Tragedy / George Steiner -- From Henrik Ibsen / G. Wilson Knight -- Smiling Ibsen: Comedy and romance in three plays of the prose cycle / Rick Davis -- Genre, representation, and the politics of dramatic form: Ibsen's realism / Joan Templeton -- Henrik Ibsen: Chronology.
Summary: Includes five major plays spanning Ibsen's career: 'Peer Gynt', 'The Wild Duck', 'The Master Builder', 'A Doll's House' and 'Hedda Gabbler'. Selections from Ibsen's correspondences and 19 of the most important critical responses to the plays are included.
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Texts of the plays / Peer Gynt -- Realist cycle: Doll house -- Wild duck -- Hedda Gabler -- Master builder -- Backgrounds -- Correspondence and documents: Peer Gynt: To Björnstjerne Björnson, 9 December 1867 -- To Björrnstjerne Björnson, 28 December 1867 -- To Edward Grieg, 23 January 1874 -- To Ludwig Passarge, 16 June 1880 -- To Edmund Gosse, 15 January 1874 -- Doll house: Alternative German ending -- To the Nationaltidende, 17 February 1880 -- To Heinrich Laube, 18 February 1880 -- To Moritz Prozor, 23 January 1 -- Speech at the banquet of the Norwegian League for Women's Rights -- Wild Duck: To Frederik Hegel, 2 September 1884 -- To Hans Schrøder, 14 November 1884 -- To August Lindberg, 22 November 1884 -- Hedda Gabler: To Moritz Prozor, 4 December 1890 -- To Hans Schrøder, 27 December 1890 -- To Kristina Steen, 14 January 1891 -- Autobiographical -- Sketch of Childhood: To Magdalene Thoresen, 3 December 1865 -- To Björnstjerne Björnson, 28 January 1865 -- To Georg(e) Brandes, 20 December 1870 -- To Georg(e) Brandes, 17 February 1871-- To Georg(e) Brandes, 24 September 1871 -- To Georg(e) Brandes, 30 April 1873 -- To John Paulsen, 20 September 1879 -- To Georg(e) Brandes, 11 October 1896 -- To Georg(e) Brandes, 3 June 1897 -- To the Reader -- Criticism: Peer Gynt -- W.H. Auden -- Genius and apostle -- Doll house: Doll's house again / Bernard Shaw -- Introduction to a doll house / Rolf Fjelde -- Female become human: Nora transformed / Sandra Saari -- Wild duck: Søfuglen (Sea Bird) / J.S. Welhaven -- Letter to Clara Rilke / Rainer Maria Rilke -- Style as vision: Wild duck, child abuse, and history / Michael Goldman -- Hedda Gabler: On the occasion of Hedda Gabler / Henry James -- Master builder: On the occasion of the master builder / Henry James -- Plot and story in the master builder / Brian Johnston -- General themes: Poetry in the round / Einar Haugen -- Ibsen's symbolism defined / Jennette Lee -- From the Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge / Rainer Maria Rilke -- Ibsen the Romantic / E.M. Forster -- Joyce and Ibsen's naturalism / Hugh Kenner -- From the Death of Tragedy / George Steiner -- From Henrik Ibsen / G. Wilson Knight -- Smiling Ibsen: Comedy and romance in three plays of the prose cycle / Rick Davis -- Genre, representation, and the politics of dramatic form: Ibsen's realism / Joan Templeton -- Henrik Ibsen: Chronology.

Includes five major plays spanning Ibsen's career: 'Peer Gynt', 'The Wild Duck', 'The Master Builder', 'A Doll's House' and 'Hedda Gabbler'. Selections from Ibsen's correspondences and 19 of the most important critical responses to the plays are included.

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