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One of Ibsen's best-known late plays.
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Born in Norway in 1828, Ibsen began his writing career with romantic history plays influenced by Shakespeare and Schiller. In 1851 he was appointed writer-in-residence at the newly established Norwegian Theatre in Bergen with a contract to write a play a year for five years, following which he was made Artistic Director of the Norwegian Theatre in what is now Oslo. In the 1860s he moved abroad to concentrate wholly on writing. He began with two mighty verse dramas, Brand and Peer Gynt, and in the 1870s and 1880s wrote the sequence of realistic ‘problem’ plays for which he is best known, among them A Doll’s House, Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, Hedda Gabler and Rosmersholm. His last four plays, The Master Builder, Little Eyolf, John Gabriel Borkman and When We Dead Awaken, dating from his return to Norway in the 1890s, are increasingly overlaid with symbolism. Illness forced him to retire in 1900, and he died in 1906 after a series of crippling strokes.
Kenneth McLeish was the most widely respected and prolific translator of drama in Britain and, until his early death in 1997, edited the NHB Drama Classics series.
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Ibsen's study of the corrosive effects of a guilty conscience. Solness, the master builder of the title, is a self-made and successful businessman. He has stopped building the churches and towers of his youth in order to concentrate on ordinary houses for people, ever since the home that his wife inherited burnt down, with their own children inside. His guilty feelings of worthlessness spur him into absurd power struggles in his office, but he is forced to face his guilt when the provocative Hilde arrives with her story from the past. Henrik Ibsen's play The Master Builder was first published in 1892 and first performed in January 1893 at the Lessing Theatre in Berlin. This English version, published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, is translated and introduced by Kenneth McLeish. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR001974778
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Condition: Como nuevo. : Sumérgete en la obra maestra de Henrik Ibsen, 'The Master Builder', una exploración profunda de la ambición, el envejecimiento y la búsqueda de la realización personal. En esta edición de Nick Hern Books Drama Classics, disfruta de una traducción que captura la esencia del drama original, ideal para estudiantes, académicos y amantes del teatro. Descubre por qué Ibsen sigue siendo uno de los dramaturgos más influyentes de todos los tiempos. EAN: 9781854593511 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y Ficción Título: The Master Builder Autor: Henrik Ibsen Idioma: en Páginas: 96 Formato: tapa blanda. Seller Inventory # Happ-2025-08-27-4febae3d
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