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A thrilling version of Ibsens epic play, charting the true odyssey of an astonishing man as he struggles to find spiritual fulfilment and political pre-eminence.Made Emperor in Rome, Julian attempts to abolish Christianity and restore the old gods. But met with fierce resistance, this great free-thinker becomes a tyrant more hated than his brutal predecessor, Constantius. And in arousing the Christians from their apathy he advances their cause, his life and death altering the course of history in stark opposition to his intent.Ibsens little-known masterpiece sweeps across Greece and the Middle East from AD351, covering twelve crucial years in the history of civilisation. Completed and published in 1873, Emperor and Galilean was premiered in Leipzig in 1896.This newly created version by Ben Power was first staged at the National Theatre, London, in June 2011, marking the first time that Emperor and Galilean had been performed on the stage in English. The production was directed by Jonathan Kent, with Andrew Scott as the Emperor Julian, and Ian McDiarmid as Maximus.

Drama Classics: The Worlds Great Plays at a Great Little PriceIbsens great play about idealism and liberalism undermined by a deeply conservative society.When Rosmer abandons his faith after the death of his wife, his former friends question his morality. But with guilty secrets and deception surrounding everyone, there are tragic results.Henrik Ibsens play Rosmersholm was first published in 1886 and first staged in 1887.This edition, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, is translated by Kenneth McLeish, with an introduction by Stephen Mulrine.

The Vaughans are all set to enjoy Christmas. Thomas has been promoted and Nora is delighted. Everything at last seems to be going right, until a visitor arrives uninvited and causes them to question just how perfect their marriage is. Henrik Ibsens A Dolls House caused outrage both in its style and subject matter when first staged in 1879. Zinnie Harriss retelling is played against the backdrop of British politics at the turn of the last century - to revel a world where duty, power and hypocrisy rule. Zinnie Harriss version of A Dolls House premiered at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in May 2009.

Norway, 1881. Mrs. Alving is ecstatic when her son Osvald visits after many years abroad. He has returned to celebrate the heroic memory of his dead father. But within hours of Osvalds homecoming his mother is forced to unearth the past and reveal its terrifying ghosts.

Considerado unánimemente por toda la crítica literaria especializada como el padre de la dramaturgia realista moderna y uno de los renovadores del teatro universal, sus excelentes obras no han perdido vigencia en todos estos años y se siguen representando constantemente con exito en los teatros de todo el mundo.Sus obras cuestionaban claramente el modelo de familia y sociedad imperantes en su epoca, en la que la sociedad, dominada por los valores victorianos vigentes, las considero escandalosas e indignas de su tiempo. Casa de muñecas lo convirtio en un abanderado del feminismo y origino una fuerte polemica que acabo en autentico escandalo, por considerar muchos la obra como un ataque frontal a la institucion de la familia. Una heroina fuerte e independiente en contraste con un marido debil que se aferra a su papel, y que decide dejar su, en apariencia, prospero matrimonio a causa de su discrepancia con el rol subordinado que esta destinada a tener en el.

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A wife, a muse, a coward, a heretic. Hedda Gabler is something to everyone, yet has no idea who she is to herself. Trapped by convention and by her own irreconcilable nature, will she have the courage to shape her own destiny?Mark ORowes fluid yet faithful adaptation of Henrik Ibsens masterpiece Hedda Gabler was premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in April 2015.

Drama Classics: The Worlds Great Plays at a Great Little PriceHenrik Ibsens mighty epic, by turns fantastic and tragic, based on the Norwegian fairy tale Per Gynt.Ibsens play, his last to be written in verse, follows the poet and braggart Peer Gynt as, fleeing disgrace, he swaggers and seduces his way from the fjords of Norway to the deserts of Africa and back.Peer Gynt was originally published in 1867, and first performed in Christiania (Oslo) in 1876.This English version, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, is translated and introduced by Kenneth McLeish.

Drama Classics: The Worlds Great Plays at a Great Little Price Should the truth be pursued, whatever the cost? The idealistic son of a wealthy businessman seeks to expose his fathers duplicity and to free his childhood friend from the lies on which his happy home life is based.Henrik Ibsens play The Wild Duck, considered a masterpiece of modern tragicomedy, was premiered in January 1885 at Den Nationale Scene, Bergen, Norway. This English translation by Stephen Mulrine is published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, with a full introduction.

John Gabriel Borkman, once an illustrious entrepreneur, has been brought low by a prison sentence for fraud. As he paces alone in an upstairs room, bankrupt and disgraced, he is obsessed by dreams of his comeback.Downstairs, his estranged wife plots the restoration of the family name. When her sister arrives unannounced, she triggers a desperate showdown with the past.Henrik Ibsens most contemporary play and his penultimate, John Gabriel Borkman is gripping, penetrating and savagely funny. This version by Lucinda Coxon premiered at the Bridge Theatre, London, in September 2022, directed by Nicholas Hytner, with a cast led by Clare Higgins, Simon Russell Beale and Lia Williams.

Drama Classics: The Worlds Great Plays at a Great Little Price Restless and discontented in her marriage, Hedda Gabler is drawn to a former admirer, Lovborg, now a brilliant writer. But he is more taken with Heddas old schoolfriend. Driven by jealousy, Hedda destroys Lovborg and his precious manuscript and, finally, herself.This English version of Henrik Ibsens play Hedda Gabler, published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, is translated and introduced by Kenneth McLeish.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone. Dr Stockmann attempts to expose a water pollution scandal in his home town which is about to establish itself as a spa. When his brother conspires with local politicians and the newspaper to suppress the story, Stockmann appeals to a public meeting - only to be shouted down and reviled as an enemy of the people. Ibsens explosive play reveals his distrust of politicians and the blindly held beliefs of the masses. Christopher Hamptons version of Ibsens classic was first staged at the National Theatre, London, in 1997.

Henrik Ibsens 1890 play "Hedda Gabler" is a study of a woman who wants to climb the social ladder. Where another of Ibsens great female character, Nora from "A Dolls House", had her eyes brutally opened ten years earlier to the hypocrisy of the bourgeoisie and brakes away from her husband and children as a result, Hedda Gabler goes in the opposite direction. She moves into this world knowingly, eyes wide open and free from delusions, with no expectations that a bourgeois lifestyle could make her happy. A choice that will have tragic consequences.

It is a play with a gentle, evocative name. But A Dolls House is a story with a kick that continues to be felt today.Henrik Ibsens play tells the story of Nora, who feels hemmed in by a male-dominated society and its expectations.When she illegally takes out a loan to pay for Christmas presents, she is blackmailed by one of her husbands colleagues.She is desperate for Torvald not to find out, so finds herself in the power of the sinister and dishonest colleague.When the truth gets out, Torvald confronts Nora, insults her and says she is "unfit to raise our children". He swiftly takes back his words, but it is too late.Nora has decided to do something truly shocking...Fans of Bertolt Brecht and August Strindberg will love this play, which challenges our acceptance of cultural and societal norms.

From Munich, on June 29, 1890, Ibsen wrote to the Swedish poet, Count Carl Soilsky: "Our intention has all along been to spend the summer in the Tyrol again. But circumstances are against our doing so. I am at present engaged upon a new dramatic work, which for several reasons has made very slow progress, and I do not leave Munich until I can take with me the completed first draft. There is little or no prospect of my being able to complete it in July." Ibsen did not leave Munich at all that season. On October 30 he wrote: "At present I am utterly engrossed in a new play. Not one leisure hour have I had for several months." Three weeks later (November 20) he wrote to his French translator, Count Prozor: "My new play is finished; the manuscript went off to Copenhagen the day before yesterday.... It produces a curious feeling of emptiness to be thus suddenly separated from a work which has occupied ones time and thoughts for several months, to the exclusion of all else. But it is a good thing, too, to have done with it. The constant intercourse with the fictitious personages was beginning to make me quite nervous." To the same correspondent he wrote on December 4: "The title of the play is Hedda Gabler. My intention in giving it this name was to indicate that Hedda, as a personality, is to be regarded rather as her fathers daughter than as her husbands wife. It was not my desire to deal in this play with so-called problems. What I principally wanted to do was to depict human beings, human emotions, and human destinies, upon a groundwork of certain of the social conditions and principles of the present day."

Dieses eBook: "Gespenster" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfaltig korrekturgelesen.Ibsen, der in "Gespenster" die Selbstzerstorung einer Familie darstellt, bezeichnete das Stuck im Untertitel als "Familiendrama". Indem Ibsen der Gesellschaft gleichsam einen Spiegel vorsetzte, kritisierte er uberholte Konventionen und stellt die tragischen Folgen dieses Zuruckbleibens am Beispiel einer Familie und ihren Mitgliedern dar. Zur Handlung: Jakob Engstrand und seine Tochter Regine sprechen miteinander. Sie solle mit ihm in die Stadt ziehen. Nach Fertigstellung des Kinderasyls, das Frau Alving gerade in Erinnerung an ihren verstorbenen Mann errichten lat, wolle er dort ein Asyl fur Seefahrende aufbauen. Regine konne ihm dort helfen und vielleicht auch eine gute Partie machen. Sie lehnt hohnisch ab. Sie will bei den Alvings bleiben, bei denen sie Haushalterin ist, Bildung erhalt, wie eine Tochter angenommen wird, und wo Osvald lebt. Regine macht Engstrand Vorwurfe: Er habe ihr oft in Trunkenheit gesagt, sie ginge ihn nichts an, sie sei eine Fi donc, er habe die Mutter zu Tode gequalt...Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) war ein norwegischer Dramatiker und Lyriker, der gegen die Moral und "Lebensluge" seiner Zeit zu Felde zog und im "Kampf der Geschlechter" im Gegensatz zu August Strindberg den Standpunkt der Frau vertrat. Seine burgerlichen Dramen zeigten ethischen Ernst und groes psychologisches Einfuhlungsvermogen.

Translator: M. von Borch Language: German

Nora oder Ein Puppenheim ist ein Theaterstuck von Henrik Ibsen. Der Titel beschreibt die Starre und Eingeschlossenheit, aus der die Protagonistin Nora am Ende ausbricht. Sowohl ihr Vater als auch ihr Mann Torvald behandeln sie, den zeitgenossischen gesellschaftlichen Konventionen entsprechend, als einen Besitz, der ihnen zwar kostbar ist, dem sie aber kein Eigenleben zubilligen. (aus wikipedia.de)