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Ibsen Volume III: Four Plays |
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The Lady from
the Sea Little Eyolf John Gabriel Borkman When We Dead Awaken |
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Available for purchase through: The Lady from the Sea The
Lady from the Sea explores the mystery of the immense exterior
world. In The Wild Duck the depths of the sea was a mysterious
interior world: in the close confines of the Ekdal home was the
fantasy attic, with its miniature landscape, its treasures left by 'the
Flying Dutchman" and its innermost secrets lodged in the mind of
a young girl. That landscape has now expanded, in The Lady from the
Sea, into a vast cosmic space: of mountain ranges, of the sea, fjord,
sky and stars. From these immensities emerges a mysterious figure, the
Stranger, as if from another planet. He is Hedvig's Flying Dutchman
now claiming another sacrifice. He already has been drowned in the "depths
of the sea" and now returns to life and to the land in order to
claim his faithless wife, Ellida, the heroine of the play. He forces
a decision upon her which we are able to observe in this play of the
open-air - unlike Hedvig Ekdal's secret and mysterious decision to commit
suicide.
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