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Ibsen

Four Major Plays, Vol. I

By Ibsen, Henrik & Davis, Rick & Johnston, Brian

Publishers Summary:
Four of Ibsen's greatest and most popular plays come alive in these theatrically-inspired and production-tested translations. Davis and Johnston bring to Ibsen a fresh combination of scholarly insight and a sense of what communicates in the theater. Too often Ibsen in English ends up sounding like a quaint Victorian parlor dramatist. These texts capture some things that are often missed -- the wit and humor, the purposeful use of certain repeated images, and the sense of daring that helped make Ibsen a revolutionary figure not just for the 19th century, but for all time to come.

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ISBN
978-1-88039-967-5
Publisher
Smith & Kraus


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Reviewed on December 1, 1995

Students and theater artists engaged in either the study or performance of Ibsen's work have traditionally encountered the dichotomy of being faithful to Ibsen's intense realism while struggling with conservative and stilted translations. Davis and Johnston, a director/dramaturg and a professor of dramatic literature, respectively, responded to this inherent difficulty by ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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