Books by Henrik Ibsen

The only play in which Ibsen denies the validity of revolt, The Wild Duck suggests that under certain conditions, domestic falsehoods are entirely necessary to survival. Plays for Performance Series.

Hedda Gabler returns, dissatisfied, from a long honeymoon. Bored by her aspiring academic husband, she foresees a life of tedious convention. And so, aided and abetted by her predatory confidante, Judge Brack, she begins to manipulate the fates of those around her to devastating effect.

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

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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.

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)