Ghosts: A Family Drama in Three Acts - Couverture souple

Hampton, Christopher; Ibsen, Henrik

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0573609829 ISBN 13 : 9780573609824

Editeur : Samuel French Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

Henrik Ibsen

Translated by Christopher Hampton

Full Length, Drama

Characters: 3 male, 2 female

Interior Set

This riveting family drama is a classic of the modern theatre. Oswald Alving returns for the dedication of the orphanage to his father's memory and has a flirtation with the family maid who, it turns out, is his father's illegitimate daughter. As the long-supressed truths collide, the orphanage is destroyed by fire, the maid deserts the family in disgust

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Henrik Johan Ibsen (20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of realism" and is one of the founders of Modernism in theatre. He is one of the most frequently performed dramatists in the world after Shakespeare, and A Doll's House became the world's most performed play by the early 20th century. Several of his later dramas were considered scandalous to many of his era, when European theatre was expected to model strict morals of family life and propriety. Ibsen's later work examined the realities that lay behind many façades, revealing much that was disquieting to many contemporaries. It utilized a critical eye and free inquiry into the conditions of life and issues of morality. Ibsen is often ranked as one of the most distinguished playwrights in the European tradition.

Présentation de l'éditeur

"[...]home that I am so inexpert in the theory of drama as not to know this? Of course I know it, and act accordingly. In no other play that I have written is the author so external to the action, so entirely absent from it, as in this last one." "They say," he continued, "that the book preaches Nihilism. Not at all. It is not concerned to preach anything whatsoever. It merely points to the ferment of Nihilism going on under the surface, at home as elsewhere. A Pastor Manders will always goad one or other Mrs. Alving to revolt. And just because she is a woman, she will, when once she has begun, go to the utmost extremes." [...]".

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Samuel French Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0573609829
• ISBN 13: 9780573609824
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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