Ibsen's Selected Plays: A Norton Critical Edition / Edition 1

by Henrik Ibsen, Brian Johnston

Overview

Ibsen ascended to the first ranks of European writers in the late nineteenth century and has remained there ever since.

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393924046
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	06/10/2003
Series:	Norton Critical Editions Series
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	640
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

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.