Henrik Ibsen: 288 books

Hedda Gabler es el estudio de una mujer obsesionada con el aburrimiento en que naufraga su vida, y de cómo se destruye a sí misma tras destruir, total o parcialmente, las vidas de los demás. Considerada una de las personalidades teatrales más complejas y dinámicas de todos los tiempos, en ella...

Ibsen is often ranked as one of the most distinguished playwrights in the European tradition. Richard Hornby describes him as "a profound poetic dramatist—the best since Shakespeare". He is widely regarded as the foremost playwright of the nineteenth century. He influenced other playwrights...

I know. No country matters. Not in the kitchen. Not on a Sunday. Not in England. After six lonely weeks with nobody but her disabled boy for company, Rita Affleck, wealthy, beautiful and consumed by jealous love, welcomes home her husband Alfred. But, far from the passionate reunion she so...

A Doll’s House, written two years after The Pillars of Society, was the first of Ibsen’s plays to create a sensation and is now perhaps his most famous play, and required reading in many secondary schools and universities. The play was highly controversial when first published, as it is sharply...

Fueron muy variados los temas y asuntos que Ibsen trató en su producción poética. Pero toda ella se vio impulsada por el mismo anhelo de luz y de precisión: los poemas ocasionales, tan gráciles y saludables para cualquier lector, no importan su latitud ni su condición; los poemas de amor y los...

Um inimigo do povo foi publicado em Copenhague em 1882 e estreou no Teatro Nacional em Oslo em 13 de janeiro de 1883. Imediatamente foi traduzido para dezenas de línguas e quase simultaneamente foi encenado e publicado em quase toda a Europa, numa repercussão digna dos grandes autores franceses...

With The Master Builder-or Master Builder Solness, as the title runs in the original-we enter upon the final stage in Ibsen's career. "You are essentially right," the poet wrote to Count Prozor in March 1900, "when you say that the series which closes with the Epilogue (When We Dead...

Four Major Plays: Volume I A Doll House • The Wild Duck • Hedda Gabler • The Master Builder Among the greatest and best known of Ibsen’s works, these four plays brilliantly exemplify his landmark contributions to the theater: his realistic dialogue, probing of social problems,...

Casa de muñecas, una de las obras más intemporales de Ibsen, narra el drama de Nora, una mujer ardiente y alegre que ante la incomprensión de su marido se encierra en sí misma, llegando a abandonar su hogar para convertirse en un ser consciente de su destino. La obra desató vivas polémicas en...

The foremost dramatist of his age, Ibsen changed theatre forever with his realistic dialogue and depiction of contemporary social problems. Here are four of his greatest works: Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, The Lady From the Sea, and John Gabriel Borkman.

The four plays in this volume, written late in Ibsen's career as a dramatist, move away from his earlier preoccupation with people at odds with society to instead explore the inward struggle with their own thoughts, feelings and dreams. The Master Builder (1892) depicts a powerful man whose illusions...

Ibsen's great social drama of a caged woman in the late nineteenth century explores her tormented desire for escape and her yearning for individual and spiritual freedom. Mr. Rudall's new translation makes Hedda Gabler beautifully speakable and playable for today's audiences.

Ibsen's forensic examination of a marriage as it falls apart, in a version by Richard Eyre. How is a life well-lived? Alfred Allmers comes home to his wife Rita and makes a decision. Casting aside his writing, he dedicates himself to raising his son. But one event is about to change his life forever....

The play was intended as a tragedy on the purposeless of life imposed on the women of his time, both by their upbringing and by the social conventions which limited their activities. When it was first produced it met with misunderstanding and abuse. It has nevertheless become one of the most popular of Ibsen's plays.