Taken from the highly acclaimed Oxford Ibsen, this collection of Ibsen''s plays includes A Doll''s House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, and The Master Builder.
Brand es considerado, junto a Peer Gynt, el texto más importante e intenso de Ibsen. Es la historia de un hombre que quiere «sanar a la raza humana de sus vicios e imperfecciones». En nuestra época,
The winter of 1879-80 Ibsen spent in Munich, and the greater part of the summer of 1880 at Berchtesgaden. November 1880 saw him back in Rome, and he passed the summer of 1881 at Sorrento. There, fourteen years earlier, he had written the last acts of Peer Gynt; there he now wrote, or at any rate completed, Gengangere. It was published in December 1881, after he had returned to Rome. On December 22 he wrote to Ludwig Passarge, one of his German translators, "My new play has now appeared, and has occasioned a terrible uproar in the Scandinavian press; every day I receive letters and newspaper articles decrying or praising it.... I consider it utterly impossible that any German theatre will accept the play at present. I hardly believe that they will dare to play it in the Scandinavian countries for some time to come." How rightly he judged we shall see anon.
"He wrote When We Dead Awaken," says Dr. Elias, "with such labour and such passionate agitation, so spasmodically and so feverishly, that those around him were almost alarmed. He must get on with it, he must get on! He seemed to hear the beating of dark pinions over his head. He seemed to feel the grim Visitant, who had accompanied Alfred Allmers on the mountain paths, already standing behind him with uplifted hand. His relatives are firmly convinced that he knew quite clearly that this would be his last play, that he was to write no more. And soon the blow fell."
Bolette. Well, Ballested, does it work smoothly?Ballested. Certainly, Miss Bolette, thats easy enough. May I askdo you expect any visitors today?Bolette. Yes, were expecting Mr. Arnholm this morning. He got to town in the night.Ballested. Arnholm? Wait a minutewasnt Arnholm the man who was tutor here several years ago?Bolette. Yes, it is he.Ballested. Oh, really! Is he coming into these parts again?Bolette. Thats why we want to have the flag up.Ballested. Well, thats reasonable enough.
