Ibsen Voyages - with Brian Johnston

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	Buy at Amazon	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.
	Contents
	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
	ABOUT THE SERIES: Each Norton Critical Edition includes an authoritative text, contextual and source materials, and a wide range of interpretations - from contemporary perspectives to the most current critical theory - as well as bibliography and , in most cases, a chronology of the author's life and work.

Introduction and Texts

Backgrounds

Criticism