The Lady from the Sea

by Henrik Ibsen, David Eldridge (Translator)

Overview

The Lady From the Sea marked a turning point in Ibsen's writing career as it, and the plays that followed it, concerned more with individual destinies than with general moral or social principles.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781408140925
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/01/2011
Series:	Modern Plays
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x 0.24(d)

About the Author

Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) was a Norwegian playwright and poet whose realistic, symbolic and often con troversial plays revolutionised European theatre. He is widely regarded as the father of modern dram a. His acclaimed plays include A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, An Enemy of the People and The Pillars of the Community. His centenary is celebrated in 2006. David Eldridge's plays include Market Boy (NT), Serving it up, A Week with Tony, Under the Blue Sky, M.A.D. and Incomplete and Random Acts of Kindness (Royal Court). He adapted Festen which was a smash-hit in 2004 .

Editorial Reviews

David Eldrige's new version of The Lady from the Sea (1888) is highly commendable - it's lucid, sufficiently lyrical and attentively colloquial but not showily, distractingly so.” —Daily Telegraph

“This fine new version of the text by David Eldridge keeps the language lyrical yet lean, laced with a mordant wit.” —The Times (of London)

“David Eldridge's superb new version plunges headfirst into its strange Freudian depths without neglecting its sly humor. This is writing that is attuned to the tug of unspoken desire that threatens to drag us all under, but also to the embarrassing misunderstandings of everyday life. Encompasses all those familiar Ibsen themes: duty, responsibility, the position of women and how the past encroaches on the future.” —The Guardian

From the Publisher

David Eldridge's superb new version plunges headfirst into its strange Freudian depths without neglecting its sly humor. This is writing that is attuned to the tug of unspoken desire that threatens to drag us all under, but also to the embarrassing misunderstandings of everyday life. Encompasses all those familiar Ibsen themes: duty, responsibility, the position of women and how the past encroaches on the future.

The Guardian

This fine new version of the text by David Eldridge keeps the language lyrical yet lean, laced with a mordant wit.

The Times (of London)

David Eldrige's new version of The Lady from the Sea (1888) is highly commendable - it's lucid, sufficiently lyrical and attentively colloquial but not showily, distractingly so.

Daily Telegraph