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Henrik
Ibsen ascended to the first ranks of European writers in the late
nineteenth century and has remained there ever since. A pioneer of
realism, he explores in his plays the existential alienation within
the modern human condition. This Norton Critical Edition includes
five major plays spanning Ibsen's long career: the boldly imaginative
verse drama Peer Gynt (in a translation published for the
first time in this volume), The Wild Duck, The Master
Builder, A
Doll House, and Hedda Gabler. The texts are accompanied by Brian
Johnston's general introduction and explanatory annotations. "Backgrounds"
provides readers with an understanding of Ibsen's creative process
through selections from his correspondence and other writings. Twenty-seven
documents have been collected and arranged by play, with a section
of autobiographical pieces at the end.
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Introduction and Texts Peer Gynt The Realist Cycle
- A Doll House
- The Wild Duck
- Hedda Gabler
- The Master Builder
Backgrounds CORRESPONDENCE AND DOCUMENTS
Peer Gynt
To Björnstjerne
Björnson, 9 December 1867
To Björnstjerne Björnson, 28 December 1867
To Edward Grieg, 23 January 1874
To Ludwig Passarge, 16 June 1880
To Edmund Gosse, 15 January 1874
A Doll House
The Alternative German Ending
To the Nationaltidende, 17 February1880
To Heinrich Laube, 18 February 1880
To Moritz Prozor, 23 January 1891
Speech at the Banquet of the Norwegian League for Women's Rights
The Wild Duck
To Frederik Hegel, 2 September 1884
to Hans Schroder, 14 November 1884
To August Lindberg, 22 Novermber 1884
Hedda Gabler
To Moritz Prozor, 4 December 1890
To Hans Schroder, 14 November 1884
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 1865
To Georg (e) Brandes, 17 February 1871
To Georg (e) Brandes, 24 September1871
To Georg (e) Brandes, 30 April 1871
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
A Doll House
Bernard Shaw, A Doll's House Again
Rolf Fjelde, Introduction to A Doll House
Sandra Saari, Female Becomes Human: Nora Transformed
The Wild Duck
J.S. Welhaven,
Søfuglen (The Sea Bird)
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letter to Clara Rilke
Michael Goldman, Style as Vision: The Wild Duck, Child Abuse, and History
HEDDA GABLER
Henry James, On the Occasion of Hedda Gabler
THE MASTER BUILDER
Henry James, On
the Occasion of The Master Builder
Brian Johnston, Plot and Story in The Master Builder
GENERAL THEMES
Einar Haugen, Poetry in the Round
Jennette Lee, Ibsen's Symbolism Defined
Rainer Maria Rilke, From The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
E.M. Forster, Ibsen the Romantic
Hugh Kenner, Joyce and Ibsen's Naturalism
George Steiner, From The Death of Tragedy
G. Wilson Knight, From The Death of Tragedy
G. Wilson Knight, From Henrik Ibsen
Rick Davis, The Smiling Ibsen: Comedy and Romance in Three Plays of the Prose
Cycle
Joan Templeton, Genre, Representation, and the Politics of Dramatic Form:
Ibsen's Realism
Henrik Ibsen: A Chronology
Selected Bibliography
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