Ibsen Henrik - Ghosts - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Ghosts is Ibsen's formidably realistic play about the effects of previous generations on the young a stinging satire on contemporary Norwegian society and morality and a haunting tragedy that more than a century since it premiered still retains its power to shock. In Ibsen's study of the lingering poison in a marriage based on a lie Osvald Alving returns from Paris to his mother's home carrying with him a dreadful secret. His mother's delight at having him home soon turns to horror and grief. The corruption that she had hoped to spare him from when sending him away from the influence of his depraved father has in fact infected his whole body in the form of syphillis. In Mrs Alving and her son's distrust of conventional religion and mores and Oswald's anguish with life Ibsen created a thoroughly modern and provocative work that created widespread outrage and shock when first produced in 1881. 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 The New Statesman
Title: Ghosts
Author(s): Ibsen Henrik, Non Worrall
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9780713686753
Pages: 128 Pages, N/A
Publication Date: 1/5/2008
Series: Student Editions
Category: Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights