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The Norton Critical Edition includes five major plays spanning Ibsen 's long career in recent translations by Brian Johnston (Peer Gynt, The Wild Duck, and The Master Builder) and Brian Johnston and Rick Davis (A Doll House and Hedda Gabler). The translation of Peer Gynt appears for the first time in this Norton Critical Edition. Backgrounds gives students an understanding of Ibsen 's creative process with selections from his correspondence and other writings. Twenty-seven documents have been collected and arranged by play, with a section of autobiographical writings at the end. Ibsen 's plays continue to provoke diverse commentary. Criticism includes nineteen of the most important responses to Ibsen 's work, among them essays by Bernard Shaw, Sandra Saari, E. M. Forster, Hugh Kenner, and Joan Templeton. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.
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Brian Johnston is Professor of Dramatic Literature at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of To the Third Empire: Ibsen's Early Drama, Text and Supertext in Ibsen's Drama and The Ibsen Cycle. He is translator, with Rick Davis, of Ibsen: Volume I: Four Major Plays and translator of Ibsen, Volume II: Four Major Plays.
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4 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Another great Norton Critical Edition
25 Mar 2008
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You have here the essential Ibsen plays and some of the best criticism in one place; an invaluable resource, but more than that, a really enjoyable read.
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Iconic Ibsen
30 Jun 2009
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I have a deep love for Henrik Ibsen, and I was very excited to purchase this book. He is a master modern playwright. At present I have only read two plays of his, Hedda Gabler and A Doll's house, and they are remarkably complex psychological dramas. For example, in Hedda Gabler, a newlywed wife returns from her honeymoon and it is apparent she is unhappy. She attempts to ruin her friend's career for the benefit of her husband's career and then convinces said friend to commit suicide. At the same time she flirts and teases with the horrendous Judge Brack, although she wants no relationship with him. After her friend's suicide, his girlfriend and Hedda's husband want said friend's legacy to live on so they begin to work together ignoring Hedda. Hedda's husband tells Judge Brack to keep Hedda company, and he is more than happy to oblige (he hints at wanting a sexual relationship with Hedda). Hedda, her plans grown too big and out of control, kills herself to relieve the subjugation into which she is forced. Judge Brack says the famous last line of the play "God have mercy, People just don't act that way!" This play is a stark commentary on society and family values that are mere decorations and are not truly practiced. All of Henrik Ibsen's plays are brilliant works. Ibsen not only puts a mirror in front of society to force us to see the ugly truth, but he decorates that mirror and ends with an amazing jaw-dropping performance.I highly recommend this book for everyone.
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