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Ghosts |
Series: Dover Thrift Editions |
Author(s): Ibsen, Henrik |
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List Price: $3.00 |
Format: Paperback (Trade Paperback) |
Publisher: Dover Publications |
Imprint: Dover Publications |
ISBN: 0486298523 or 9780486298528 |
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| The innovative dramas of Henrik Ibsen created a s ... |
 | 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 entrée to Ibsen's other works and helps confirm his status as "the father of modern drama."
>hr>hr< Only Shakespeare's plays are performed more frequently than those of Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906). The Norwegian playwright, theater director, and poet scandalized many of his contemporaries as he led the theater into the modern era by exploring the realities behind 19th-century social conventions. |
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Ghosts; by Ibsen, Henrik; ivan r dee, Ivan R Dee |
Ghosts; by Ibsen, Henrik; Bloomsbury Academic, Oberon Books |
Ghosts; by Ibsen, Henrik; Theatre Communications Group, Nick Hern Books |
Ghosts; by Ibsen, Henrik; Bloomsbury Academic, Methuen Drama |
Ghosts; by Ibsen, Henrik; Joe Books LTD, Joe Books LTD |
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An Enemy of the People; by Ibsen, Henrik; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
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An Enemy of the People; The Wild Duck; Rosmersholm; by Ibsen, Henrik; Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press |
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