Ibsen Plays: 2: A Doll's House; An Enemy of the People; Hedda Gabler (World Classics) by Henrik Ibsen (Author), Michael Meyer (Author)
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ISBN: 9780413463401
Publisher : Methuen Drama; 0 edition (September 25, 1980)
Paperback : 336 pages
This volume contains Ibsen's two most famous and frequently read, studied and performed plays about women: A Doll's House (1879), his first international success, which 'exploded like a bomb into contemporary life', and Hedda Gabler (1890), now one of his most popular plays, but greeted at first with bewilderment and outrage ('The play is simply a bad escape of moral sewage-gas' Pictorial World). Also included is An Enemy of the People (1883), whose central character was the actor Konstantin Stanislavski's favourite role.
Michael Meyer's translations are 'crisp and cobweb-free, purged of verbal Victoriana' (Kenneth Tynan)