Bøker av Henrik Ibsen

When the famous and financially successful baths in his home town are contaminated, the local doctor insists they be shut down for expensive repairs, causing upheaval among the townsfolk.

Ibsen's classic tragic masterpiece, in a new version by Richard Eyre. Helene Alving has spent her life suspended in an emotional void after the death of her cruel but outwardly charming husband. She is determined to escape the ghosts of her past by telling her son, Oswald, the truth about his father. But on his return from his life as a painter in France, Oswald reveals how he has already inherited the legacy of Alving's dissolute life. Richard Eyre's scintillating new version of perhaps Ibsen's greatest play premiered at the Almeida Theatre, London in October 2013. 'raw and unsparing, but also devastatingly true to the spirit of the original... theatre seldom, if ever, comes greater than this' Sunday Telegraph 'both humorous and deeply affecting... the most lucid and affecting version of the play I have ever seen' Time Out 'Richard Eyre's new stripped-down 90-minute version has glories too many to list' The Times

Full of analysis and interpretation, historical background, discussions and commentaries, York Notes will help you get right to the heart of the text you're studying, whether it's poetry, a play or a novel.

Written in the aftermath of hostile criticism of Ghosts, Ibsen's three plays all deal with the moral courage needed to tell the truth. They are peopled not by symbolic figures and abstract concepts, but by complex individuals pitted against, or part of, a society that Ibsen felt was morally abhorrent and claustrophobically provincial.

A triology of plays from the famous playwright Henrik Ibsen. This is collection of three of Ibsen's most famous plays and is translated by David Rudkin. Includes the plays Peer Gynt, Rosmersholm, When We Dead Waken

Written in the Dano-Norwegian language, it is the most widely performed Norwegian play. Ibsen's play "Peer Gynt" is loosely based on the fairy tale "Per Gynt." It was interpreted in its day as a satire on the Norwegian personality. This is a new version of the play from celebrated playwright Colin Teevan.

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.

New adaptation of Ibsens's verse tragedy from Scottish playwright Robert David MacDonald.

Peer Gynt was Ibsen's last work to use poetry as a medium of dramatic expression, and the poetry is brilliantly appropriate to the imaginative swings between Scandinavian oral folk traditions, the Morrocan coast, the Sahara Desert, and the absurdist images of the Cairo madhouse. This translation is taken from the acclaimed Oxford Ibsen.John McFarlane is Emeritus Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia, and General Editor of the Oxford Ibsen.

The epic story of Peer's quest for the meaning of life as he staggers from the fjords of Norway to the deserts of Africa and back. Written in 1876.

New adaptation of Ibsen's classic by Richard Eyre, who ran England's National Theatre from 1988-97.

Should the truth be pursued whatever the cost? The idealistic son of a wealthy businessman seeks to expose his father's duplicity and to free his childhood friend from the lies on which his happy home life is based.

In a new translation by Pam Gems, the author of Stanley, Piaf and The Snow Palace.

Ibsen ascended to the first ranks of European writers in the late nineteenth century and has remained there ever since.

"Meyer's translations of Ibsen are a major fact in one's general sense of post-war drama. Their vital pace, their unforced insistence on the poetic centre of Ibsen's genius, have beaten academic versions from the field" (George Steiner)

This sixth volume of Ibsen's plays, introduced by the playwright's biographer, contains "Peer Gynt", one of the greatest of 19th-century verse epics and one of Ibsen's most popular and frequently-performed works, and "The Pretenders", an earlier epic that was his first theatrical success.

Ibsen's best-known play displays his genius for realistic prose drama. An expression of women's rights, the play climaxes when the central character, Nora, rejects a smothering marriage and life in "a doll's house." A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

These three plays, in translations by Michael Meyer, show Ibsen's concerns moving from the study of social problems to the sickness of individuals, and focus in particular on the way in which one person may gain a hypnotic hold over another.

Formerly part of the "World Dramatists" series of play collections by classic and modern playwrights, including foreign works in workable and accurate translations, this title and seven others are reissued in a new format under the heading, "World Classics".

"Meyer's translations of Ibsen are a major fact in one's general sense of post-war drama. Their vital pace, their unforced insistence on the poetic centre of Ibsen's genius, have beaten academic versions from the field" (George Steiner)

A collection of plays that focus on the family and how it struggles to stay together by telling lies - and exposing them.

A collection of literature anthologies and reference books for Key Stage 3 onwards.

Johannes Rosmer, eier av Rosmersholm, er den siste av en gammel og innflytelsesrik slekt av geistlige, militære og embetsmenn. Han var tidligere sogneprest, men har trukket seg fra embetet. Før stykket tar til har hans kone Beate druknet seg i Møllefossen. Man mener hun var blitt sinnsforvirret av sorg fordi hun ikke kunne få barn og føre Rosmerslekten videre.I ungdommen var Rosmer svært påvirket av sin huslærer Ulrik Brendel, en fritenker og idealist. En ung kvinne, Rebekka West, har gjennom Beates bror Kroll skaffet seg innpass på Rosmersholm. Hun ser mulighetene i Rosmer og tror hun kan hjelpe ham med å virkeliggjøre hans tanke om å skape en verden av "glade adelsmennesker". Rosmer blir uten å innrømme det for seg selv forelsket i Rebekka. Samtalene med henne får stor innflytelse på hans livssyn, og en stund mener han å være klar for å begi seg ut i verden og aktivt engasjere seg i det politiske liv på venstre fløy. Det kommer til åpen konflikt mellom ham og den konservative rektor Kroll, som setter alle krefter inn på å redde ham tilbake fra de "frafalne".I løpet av stykket oppdager Rosmer at Rebekka har manipulert og lurt Beate til å tro at hun selv var gravid med Rosmer. Han forstår nå at det var dette som var årsaken til at Beate tok livet av seg, og han fylles av tvil og selvanklager.Rebekka på sin side oppdager i en konfrontasjon med Kroll at doktor West, som hun trodde kun var hennes pleiefar, var hennes virkelige far. Etter dette tilstår hun at det var hun som indirekte sto bak Beates selvmord fordi hun selv ville ta fruens plass på Rosmersholm. Men når Rosmer ber henne om å gifte seg med ham, sier hun nei. De to kaster seg i fossen fra det samme stedet som Beate gjorde det.(Nasjonalbiblioteket)

Vildanden (1884) er det første paradoksale drama, en komedie, som bevæger sig i retning af tragedie, eller måske en tragedie på grænsen til komedie. Det drejer sig om forstillelse og illusioner, sætter spørgsmålstegn ved, hvad der er sandt, afslører idealistisk forkvakling med tragiske resultater for de uskyldige. Den 'ondartede idealist' Gregers Werle kræver ofre af andre for at få bekræftet sine egne forestillinger.(Store Danske Encyklopædi)