Should the truth be pursued whatever the cost? The idealistic son of a wealthy businessman seeks to expose his father's duplicity and to free his childhood friend from the lies on which his happy home life is based.
In a new translation by Pam Gems, the author of Stanley, Piaf and The Snow Palace.
Ibsen ascended to the first ranks of European writers in the late nineteenth century and has remained there ever since.
"Meyer's translations of Ibsen are a major fact in one's general sense of post-war drama. Their vital pace, their unforced insistence on the poetic centre of Ibsen's genius, have beaten academic versions from the field" (George Steiner)
This sixth volume of Ibsen's plays, introduced by the playwright's biographer, contains "Peer Gynt", one of the greatest of 19th-century verse epics and one of Ibsen's most popular and frequently-performed works, and "The Pretenders", an earlier epic that was his first theatrical success.
This dark psychological drama depicts the evil machinations of a ruthless, nihilistic heroine. Readers will discover an exploration of the nature of evil and the tragedy that lies in human frailty.
Ibsen's best-known play displays his genius for realistic prose drama. An expression of women's rights, the play climaxes when the central character, Nora, rejects a smothering marriage and life in "a doll's house." A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
These three plays, in translations by Michael Meyer, show Ibsen's concerns moving from the study of social problems to the sickness of individuals, and focus in particular on the way in which one person may gain a hypnotic hold over another.
Formerly part of the "World Dramatists" series of play collections by classic and modern playwrights, including foreign works in workable and accurate translations, this title and seven others are reissued in a new format under the heading, "World Classics".
"Meyer's translations of Ibsen are a major fact in one's general sense of post-war drama. Their vital pace, their unforced insistence on the poetic centre of Ibsen's genius, have beaten academic versions from the field" (George Steiner)
A collection of plays that focus on the family and how it struggles to stay together by telling lies - and exposing them.
A collection of literature anthologies and reference books for Key Stage 3 onwards.
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