A Doll's House and Other Plays: With Pillars of the Community, Ghosts and an Enemy of the People -- Henrik Ibsen, Paperback

Four of Ibsen's most important plays in superb modern translations, part of the new Penguin Ibsen series. With her assertion that she is "first and foremost a human being," rather than a wife, mother or fragile doll, Nora Helmer sent shockwaves throughout Europe when she appeared in Henrik Ibsen's greatest and most famous play, A Doll's House. Ibsen's follow-up, Ghosts, was no less radical, with its unrelenting investigation into religious hypocrisy, family secrets, and sexual double-dealing. These two masterpieces are accompanied here by The Pillars of Society and An Enemy of the People, both exploring the tensions and dark compromises at the heart of society.Author: Henrik IbsenPublisher: Penguin GroupPublished: 09/13/2016Pages: 448Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.20dISBN: 9780141194561Age Range: 18-UPAbout the AuthorHENRIK IBSEN (1828-1906) is often called 'the Father of Modern Drama'. Born in Norway in 1828, he enjoyed successes with the verse dramas Brand and Peer Gynt, before embarking on his great 12-­play cycle of society dramas, which included A Doll's House and Ghosts. After twenty-­one years of self-­imposed exile in Italy and Germany, Ibsen died in Norway in 1906. DEBORAH DAWKIN and ERIK SKUGGEVIK, are freelance literary translators. TORE REM is a professor of British literature at the University of Oslo.