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Ibsen Plays: "Peer Gynt" and The "Pretenders" Vol 6 (World Classics) Book

This sixth volume of Ibsen's plays, introduced by the playwright's biographer, contains ''Peer Gynt'', one of the greatest of 19th-century verse epics and one of Ibsen's most popular and frequently-performed works, and ''The Pretenders'', an earlier epicRead More

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    "Meyer's translations of Ibsen are a major fact in one's general sense of post-war drama. Their vital pace, their unforced insistence on the poetic centre of Ibsen's genius, have beaten academic versions from the field" (George Steiner)



    This volume contains Ibsen's famous early epic, Peer Gynt, and the historical tragedy The Pretenders, which together with Brand and Emperor and Galilean form a magisterial quartet at the fulcrum of Ibsen's career. George Bernard Shaw praised Peer Gynt (1867) for the power of Ibsen's 'grip on humanity …The universality of Ibsen makes his plays come home to all nations'. The Pretenders (1863), described by Kenneth Tynan as Ibsen's 'first great play', was also his first real success in the theatre.

    Michael Meyer's translations are 'crisp and cobweb-free, purged of verbal Victoriana' (Kenneth Tynan)


  • 0413153002
  • 9780413153005
  • Henrik Ibsen
  • 9 July 1987
  • Methuen Drama
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 288
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