Ghosts By Henrik Ibsen

Author : Henrik Ibsen
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Page : 124 pages
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Release : 2023-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9791041801503

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Written in 1881, when melodrama and farce were still at their peak of popularity, Ibsen’s Ghosts is a three-act tragedy that explores uncomfortable, even forbidden themes. It is also a highly critical commentary on the morality of the day. The play centers around the widow of a prominent Norwegian sea captain whose son returns home and, with tragic consequences, revives the ghosts of the past that she has long labored to put to rest. Ghosts immediately became a source of controversy for its inclusion of topics like venereal disease, incest, and euthanasia, and it was banned from being performed in England for many years. Its arrival signals a shift in the nature of theatre and, despite negative criticism, it was translated into other languages and performed in Sweden, Germany, and New York within a few years of its debut. It stands now as one of the works considered to have ushered in the era of modern drama.

Author : Henrik Ibsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X000307196

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Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen Pdf

Author : Henrik Ibsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1977808077

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Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen by Henrik Ibsen Pdf

Ghosts (original title: Gengangere) is a play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It was written in 1881 and first staged in 1882 in Chicago, Illinois, in a production by a Danish company on tour. Like many of Ibsen's plays, Ghosts is a scathing commentary on 19th-century morality. Because of its subject matter, which includes religion, venereal disease, incest and euthanasia, it immediately generated strong controversy and negative criticism. Since then the play has fared better, and is considered a "great play" that historically holds a position of "immense importance".

Author : Henrik Ibsen
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781472573889

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Ibsen Plays: 1 by Henrik Ibsen Pdf

The plays in this volume range from the once shockingly realistic Ghosts (1881), 'the play that launched a thousand ships of critical fury'; through The Wild Duck (1884) with its innovatory symbolism and its touching portrait of a fourteen-year-old girl held in thrall by her feckless father ('Where,' asked George Bernard Shaw, 'shall I find an epithet magnificent enough for The Wild Duck?'); to The Master Builder (1892), showing the semi-autobiographical relationship between an ageing genius and a dynamic young woman. Michael Meyer's translations are 'crisp and cobweb-free, purged of verbal Victoriana' (Kenneth Tynan)

Author : Henrik 1828-1906 Ibsen
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1362407232

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Ghosts; An Enemy of the People; The Wild Duck by Henrik 1828-1906 Ibsen Pdf

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Author : Henrik Ibsen
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732690800

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Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen Pdf

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Author : Henrik Ibsen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1964-06-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0140441352

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Ghosts and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen Pdf

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. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Henrik Ibsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003810616

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Ghosts - A public enemy - When we dead wake.

Author : Henrik Ibsen
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : English drama
ISBN : 0573609780

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Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen Pdf

Henrik Ibsen Translated by Christopher Hampton Full Length, Drama Characters: 3 male, 2 female Interior Set This riveting family drama is a classic of the modern theatre. Oswald Alving returns for the dedication of the orphanage to his father's memory and has a flirtation with the family maid who, it turns out, is his father's illegitimate daughter. As the long-supressed truths collide, the orphanage is destroyed by fire, the maid deserts the family in disgust when she learns her true parentage, and Mrs. Alving is left alone to care for her hopelessly insane son who has fallen prey to the social disease that killed his father. The role of Mrs. Alving, considered one of the greatest in the modern repertoire, has been played by Liv Ullman, Geraldine Page, Eva Le Galliene, Mrs. Fiske, Alla Nazimova and Eleonora Duse.

Author : Henrik Ibsen
Publisher : Dutton Adult
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039189290

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Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen Pdf

Ghosts is the story of Helen Alving, a widow who is haunted by the many mistresses of her deceased husband and by her son who has inherited syphilis from his philandering father. Ghosts is a scathing indictment of Victorian society in which Ibsen refutes the notion that if one simply fulfills one's duty rather than following one's desires then a good and noble life will be achieved. Scandalous in its day for its frank discussion of venereal disease and marriage infidelity, Ghosts remains to this day an intense psychological drama and sharp social criticism.

Author : Henrik Ibsen
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387315042

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Ghosts; A Family Drama in Three Acts by Henrik Ibsen Pdf

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Author : Henrik Ibsen
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : EAN:8596547169352

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Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Ghosts" (A Domestic Tragedy in Three Acts) by Henrik Ibsen. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Henrik Ibsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Norwegian drama
ISBN : HARVARD:32044010497246

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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen Pdf

Author : Henrik Henrik Ibsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1521178046

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Ghosts by Henrik Henrik Ibsen Pdf

How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen "The innovative dramas of Henrik Ibsen created a sensation among 19th-century audiences with their mordant attacks on social conventions. Among the finest of these ground-breaking works was Ghosts, first performed in 1881. In it, the playwright assailed the hypocrisy of moral codes, offering a daring treatment of such then-taboo issues as infidelity, venereal disease, and illegitimacy. Ibsen substituted the modern scientific idea of heredity for the ancient Greek concept of fate, exposing hidden sins of the past as the roots of corruption.The sins of the past are at the heart of the play, whose haunted heroine, Mrs. Helen Alving, has accepted her pastor's counsel and endured her husband's many infidelities in silence. Ten years after Alving's death, she is to dedicate an orphanage in his memory. Her son Oswald, kept innocent of his father's profligacy, returns home for the dedication. Oswald's attraction to the housemaid -- in reality, his half-sister -- conjures up the ghost of his parents' unhappy marriage. This disastrous romance, along with Oswald's increasing symptoms of the venereal disease inherited from his father, force Mrs. Alving to confront her own ""ghosts.""A powerful and engrossing psychological drama, Ghosts serves as an excellent entr�e to Ibsen's other works and helps confirm his status as ""the father of modern drama."""

Author : Henrik Ibsen
Publisher : Stage Door
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-11
Category : DRAMA
ISBN : 1780007841

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Henrik Ibsen - Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen Pdf

Henrik Ibsen (20th March, 1828 - 23rd May, 1906) is often referred to as the father of realism and ranked just below Shakespeare as Europe's greatest ever playwright especially as his plays are performed most frequently throughout the world after Shakespeare's. He was Norwegian and although set his plays in Norway, he wrote them in Danish and lived most of his professional life in Italy and Germany. His affect on the theatre is still evident today and shapes the distinction of plays being art as opposed to entertainment since he broke down all previous traditions and explored issues, developed characterisation, revealed uncomfortable truths, challenged assumptions and brokedown facades in ourselves as well as society. These factors are clearly demonstrated in Ghosts which exposes painful and hidden past secrets that affect many of the characters. The protagonist, Mrs Alving, is a wealthy middle aged widow who was the victim of an alcoholic unfaithful husband. She searches to make sense of her life and comes to realise that her husband was suffocated by convention and is unwilling to let her life go the same way. The play tackles many taboo topics of its day like assisted suicide, premarital sex, incest, syphilis and criticism of the church and whilst these issues are no longer the hot potatoes they were, Ibsen's strong characterisation and haunting prose make this a powerful relevant drama.