{"product_id":"the-master-builder-and-other-plays","title":"The Master Builder and Other Plays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIbsen's greatest late plays in superb modern translations, part of the new Penguin Ibsen series.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This volume includes \u003ci\u003eThe Master Builder\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLittle Eyolf\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJohn Gabriel Borkman \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWhen We Dead Awaken - \u003c\/i\u003eIbsen's last four plays, written in his old age in Oslo. In \u003ci\u003eThe Master Builder, \u003c\/i\u003ea married, middle-aged architect becomes bewitched by a strange young woman who claims to have known him for years. A sudden death in \u003ci\u003eLittle Eyolf\u003c\/i\u003e is the catalyst that drives a couple into a greater understanding of themselves. In \u003ci\u003eJohn Gabriel Borkman\u003c\/i\u003e, a banker recently released from prison must choose between his wife and her sister, while a sculptor on holiday is reunited with the woman who inspired his greatest art in \u003ci\u003eWhen We Dead Awaken\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The new Penguin series of Ibsen's major plays offer the best available editions in English, under the general editorship of Tore Rem. All the plays have been freshly translated by leading translators and are based on the definitive Norwegian edition of Ibsen's works. This volume includes an introduction by Toril Moi on the themes of death and human limitation in the plays, and additional editorial apparatus by Tore Rem.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) is often called 'the Father of Modern Drama'. Born in the small Norwegian town of Skien, he left Norway in 1864 for a twenty-one-year long voluntary exile in Italy and Germany. After successes with the verse dramas \u003ci\u003eBrand \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePeer Gynt, \u003c\/i\u003ehe turned to prose, writing his great twelve-play cycle of society dramas between 1877 and 1899. This included \u003ci\u003eThe Pillars of Society\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Doll's House\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGhosts\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAn Enemy of the People\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Wild Duck\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRosmersholm\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Lady from the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHedda Gabler\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Master Builder\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLittle Eyolf\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJohn Gabriel Borkman\u003c\/i\u003e, and, finally, \u003ci\u003eWhen We Dead Awaken\u003c\/i\u003e. Ibsen returned to Norway in 1891 and died there at the age of seventy-eight.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Barbara J. Haveland and Anne-Marie Stanton-Ife are both freelance literary translators.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Toril Moi is Professor of English, Theater Studies and Philosophy at Duke University. Her books include \u003ci\u003eHenrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism \u003c\/i\u003e(2006).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Tore Rem is Professor of British literature at the University of Oslo and author of \u003ci\u003eHenry Gibson\/Henrik Ibsen\u003c\/i\u003e (2006).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54252800508248,"sku":"9780141194592","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780141194592.jpg?v=1764835224","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/the-master-builder-and-other-plays","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}