Ghosts And Two Other Plays - Couverture souple

HENDRIK IBSEN

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1408629321 ISBN 13 : 9781408629321

Editeur : Read Books, 2007

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The Warriors at Helgeland {H csT mandene paa Helgeland), the first of the three plays included in the present volume, was written in 1857, when Ibsen (who was then in his thirtieth year) was at Christiania. Both in conception and execution it is an enormous advance on the immature efforts which had preceded it; and, apart from its own very considerable merits, poetic and dramatic, it is noteworthy as foreshadowing two aspects of the later genius that could produce Peer Gynt and The Wild Duck. Judged as a poetic romance, it has great charm if approached in the necessary spirit of simplicity. As a piece of dramatic construction it is admirable, and already characteristic of the later Ibsen in its methods. A preface which Ibsen wrote in 1876 for aG erman translation of the play affords interesting evidence of his sane dramatic sense. After remarking that the Volsung Saga was the source of his inspiration for the play, he goes on to say that he was nevertheless convinced that the idealised and, to a certain extent, impersonal figures in theS agas were unsuitable for representation on the stage of to-day, and that, apart from this, it had been his aim in this play to present not mythical personages, butS candinavian life in olden times. To realise the wisdom of this, one has only to compare the human interest possessed by the characters inT heW arriors at Helgeland with the almost entire lack of it in the heroes and heroines of Wagner sR ing derN ibelungen. Ibsen offered the play to the Royal Theatre at Copenhagen and to the Christiania Theatre, and both promptly rejected it as unsuitable to the tastes of the public. It was not until 1861, after a tentative performance at Bergen, that the play was produced at the Christiania Theatre. It was not seen inC openhagen until some fourteen years later.
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This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Read Books
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1408629321
• ISBN 13: 9781408629321
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 260
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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