Ghosts and other plays / Henrik Ibsen ; translated by Peter Watts.
By: Ibsen, Henrik.
Contributor(s): Watts, Peter
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Material type: 
BookSeries: Penguin classics.Publisher: London : Penguin, 1969Description: 304 p. ; 18 cm.ISBN: 0140441352.Subject(s): Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906 -- Translations into English | Norwegian drama -- Translations into EnglishDDC classification: 839.8226 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Store Item | 839.8226 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00033538 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The plays in this volume focus on the family and how it struggles to stay together by telling lies - and exposing them. In Ghosts , Osvald Alving returns home only to discover the truth about the father he always looked up to, and learns the horrific effect his father's debauchery has had on him. It was Ibsen's most provocative drama, stripping away the surface of a middle-class family to expose layers of hypocrisy and immorality. A Public Enemy sets two brothers against each other when one wishes to make public the facts about the polluted water in the public baths of their home town. And When We Dead Wake tells of an artist meeting an old lover by chance and rejecting his wife, in a symbolic exploration of Ibsen's own literary life and the sacrifices he made in his work.
Ghosts -- A public enemy -- When we dead wake.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Henrik Ibsen, poet and playwright was born in Skein, Norway, in 1828. His creative work spanned 50 years, from 1849-1899, and included 25 plays and numerous poems. During his middle, romantic period (1840-1875), Ibsen wrote two important dramatic poems, Brand and Peer Gynt, while the period from 1875-1899 saw the creation of 11 realistic plays with contemporary settings, the most famous of which are A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, and The Wild Duck.Henrik Ibsen died in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway in 1906.
(Bowker Author Biography)