An Enemy of the People: Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics)

by Henrik Ibsen, Stephen Mulrine (Translator)

Overview

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An idealistic doctor, Stockmann, discovers that the waters from which his native spa town draws its wealth are dangerously contaminated. As the citizens realise the financial implications, Stockmann comes under increasing pressure to keep silent.

Henrik Ibsen's play An Enemy of the People was published in 1882 and first performed in 1883.

This edition of An Enemy of the People in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series is translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780015378
Publisher:	Hern, Nick Books
Publication date:	01/05/2015
Series:	NHB Drama Classi
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	386 KB
Age Range:	12 Years

About the Author

Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. His plays include: Brand, Peer Gynt, A Doll’s House, Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, Hedda Gabler, Rosmersholm, The Master Builder, Little Eyolf, John Gabriel Borkman and When We Dead Awaken.

Stephen Mulrine (1937–2020) was a Glasgow-born poet and playwright who wrote extensively for radio and television, and published many translations, including English translations of plays in Russian by Chekhov, Gogol and Gorky, as well as translations of plays by Ibsen, Molière, Pirandello, Strindberg and others.