A Doll's House and Other Plays

by Henrik Ibsen, Deborah Dawkin (Translator), Erik Skuggevik (Translator), Tore Rem (Introduction), Tore Rem (Editor)

Overview

Four of Ibsen’s most important plays in superb modern translations, part of the new Penguin Ibsen series.
     With her assertion that she is “first and foremost a human being,” rather than a wife, mother or fragile doll, Nora Helmer sent shockwaves throughout Europe when she appeared in Henrik Ibsen’s greatest and most famous play, A Doll’s House. Ibsen’s follow-up, Ghosts, was no less radical, with its unrelenting investigation into religious hypocrisy, family secrets, and sexual double-dealing. These two masterpieces are accompanied here by The Pillars of Society and An Enemy of the People, both exploring the tensions and dark compromises at the heart of society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780141194561
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	09/13/2016
Pages:	448
Sales rank:	45,384
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

HENRIK IBSEN (1828–1906) is often called 'the Father of Modern Drama'. Born in Norway in 1828, he enjoyed successes with the verse dramas Brand and Peer Gynt, before embarking on his great 12-­play cycle of society dramas, which included A Doll's House and Ghosts. After twenty-­one years of self-­imposed exile in Italy and Germany, Ibsen died in Norway in 1906.

DEBORAH DAWKIN and ERIK SKUGGEVIK, are freelance literary translators.

TORE REM is a professor of British literature at the University of Oslo.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	7
	The League of Youth	23
	A Doll's House	145
	The Lady from the Sea	233
	Notes	331