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Emperor and Galilean

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By (author): Henrik Ibsen

A thrilling version of Ibsen's epic play, charting the true odyssey of an astonishing man as he struggles to find spiritual fulfilment and political pre-eminence.

Made Emperor in Rome, Julian attempts to abolish Christianity and restore the old gods. But met with fierce resistance, this great free-thinker becomes a tyrant more hated than his brutal predecessor, Constantius. And in arousing the Christians from their apathy he advances their cause, his life and death altering the course of history in stark opposition to his intent.

Ibsen's little-known masterpiece sweeps across Greece and the Middle East from AD351, covering twelve crucial years in the history of civilisation. Completed and published in 1873, Emperor and Galilean was premiered in Leipzig in 1896.

This newly created version by Ben Power was first staged at the National Theatre, London, in June 2011, marking the first time that Emperor and Galilean had been performed on the stage in English. The production was directed by Jonathan Kent, with Andrew Scott as the Emperor Julian, and Ian McDiarmid as Maximus.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 150g
  • Dimensions: 128 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 16 Jul 2011
  • Publisher: Nick Hern Books
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781848421929

About Henrik Ibsen

Born in Norway in 1828 Ibsen began his writing career with romantic history plays influenced by Shakespeare and Schiller. In 1851 he was appointed writer-in-residence at the newly established Norwegian Theatre in Bergen with a contract to write a play a year for five years following which he was made Artistic Director of the Norwegian Theatre in what is now Oslo. In the 1860s he moved abroad to concentrate wholly on writing. He began with two mighty verse dramas Brand and Peer Gynt and in the 1870s and 1880s wrote the sequence of realistic problem plays for which he is best known among them A Dolls House Ghosts An Enemy of the People Hedda Gabler and Rosmersholm. His last four plays The Master Builder Little Eyolf John Gabriel Borkman and When We Dead Awaken dating from his return to Norway in the 1890s are increasingly overlaid with symbolism. Illness forced him to retire in 1900 and he died in 1906 after a series of crippling strokes.

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