When we dead awaken/The Lady from the sea/The Master builder/John Gabriel Borkman

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WHEN WE DEAD AWAKEN and three other plays HENRIK IBSEN "The four plays contained in this volume belong to Ibsens final period; he wrote them between the ages of sixty and seventy-one. The Lady from the Sea is about a woman obsessed by a man she knows to be evü.The Master Builder, John Gábriel Borkman and When We Dead Awaken are studies of arrogant men of genius, who destroy the happiness of those closest to them. In these plays, Ibsen created somé of his most memorable portraits of women: Ellida, drawn to her démon lover as though by a tide drawing her out to sea; Hilde Wangel, first seen in The Lady from the Sea as a girl of thirteen starved of affection, then as the predatory young woman of twenty-three who drives the Master Builder to his death; Ella and Gunhild, the twin sisters whom John Gábriel Borkman destroys; and Irene in When We Dead Awaken, the deranged relic of a former beauty. Around these central characters, somé of the most powerful ever created by any dramatist, move... Tovább

Fülszöveg

WHEN WE DEAD AWAKEN and three other plays HENRIK IBSEN "The four plays contained in this volume belong to Ibsens final period; he wrote them between the ages of sixty and seventy-one. The Lady from the Sea is about a woman obsessed by a man she knows to be evü.The Master Builder, John Gábriel Borkman and When We Dead Awaken are studies of arrogant men of genius, who destroy the happiness of those closest to them. In these plays, Ibsen created somé of his most memorable portraits of women: Ellida, drawn to her démon lover as though by a tide drawing her out to sea; Hilde Wangel, first seen in The Lady from the Sea as a girl of thirteen starved of affection, then as the predatory young woman of twenty-three who drives the Master Builder to his death; Ella and Gunhild, the twin sisters whom John Gábriel Borkman destroys; and Irene in When We Dead Awaken, the deranged relic of a former beauty. Around these central characters, somé of the most powerful ever created by any dramatist, move sharply observed minor characters, somé comic, somé tragic. The Lady from the Sea, The Master Builder and John Gábriel Borkman show Ibsen at the height of his powers and in complete command of the technique to the perfecting of which he had devoted fifty years; while in When We Dead Awaken we see him, at the age of seventy-one, moving into a new and experimentál field into which, a dozen years later, James Joyce, who had been much excited by the play as a young man, was to follow him." From the Foreword by Michael Meyer This is the second Anchor volume of Ibsen's plays in new translations by Michael Meyer. Vissza