The Master Builder

by Henrik Ibsen

Overview

The most gripping of Ibsen's later, brooding self-portraits, The Master Builder explores the nature of a messianic hero pulled down from the heights to reside in the community of men, and now painfully laboring to drag himself up again. Plays for Performance Series.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781466203112
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	08/25/2011
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	180
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.38(d)

About the Author

The Plays for Performance series is edited by Nicholas Rudall, former artistic director of the Court Theatre at the University of Chicago where he is professor of classics, and Bernard Sahlins, founder and director of the Second City. They both live in Chicago, Illinois.

Editorial Reviews

Here the Ibsen classic gets an overhaul to make the language more accessible to modern audiences. For nontraditionalists only.

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