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British & Irish
A doting husband. A troubled writer. A loaded gun. It's 2019 and Hedda Tesman returns to a life she can't seem to escape from. After thirty years of playing wife, Hedda is bitter and bored. When her estranged daughter... See More
Poetry & Drama
This unique version includes bonus annotations: Biography of the author Historical context of the play Literary critique A Doll's House (Norwegian: Et dukkehjem) is an 1879 play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen... See More
Literary Fiction
'A Doll's House' is Henrik Ibsen's best-known play. This masterpiece created quite a stir when it was first released because of its feminist stance, and is considered by many to be the first truly feminist play ever written... See More
Poetry & Drama
"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"... See More
Mrs Alving is preparing for the opening of an orphanage, built in memory of her late husband. Her beloved artist son Oswald has returned from Paris to honour the occasion. But his long awaited homecoming rapidly descends... See More
Poetry & Drama
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... See More
Poetry & Drama
A portrait of idealism and democracy floundering in a society of conservatism and opportunism, considered by many to be Ibsen's dramatic masterpiece. Johannes Rosmer has resigned as parish priest following the suicide of... See More
Poetry & Drama
'I'm going to find out - which of us is right, society or me.' Henrik Ibsen's three great 'problem plays', A Doll's House, Ghosts and Hedda Gabler, challenged the conventions of nineteenth-century society and sparked a... See More
Poetry & Drama
Four of Ibsen's most important plays in superb modern translations, part of the new Penguin Ibsen series. In these four unforgettably intense plays, Henrik Ibsen explores the complex nature of truth, the tension between... See More
Poetry & DramaIncludes the plays Peer Gynt, Rosmersholm, When We Dead Waken The three plays in this volume are representative of Ibsen's extraordinary achievement as a playwright. The first is perhaps his best known work, the great... See More
Poetry & Drama
Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Ibsen's great play about idealism and liberalism undermined by a deeply conservative society. When Rosmer abandons his faith after the death of his wife, his... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
"An Enemy of the People'' is a play written by Henrik Ibsen and a masterpiece of Norwegian literature. It describes perfectly the contemporary Norwegian society and it has been rewritten by American author Arthur... See More
World LiteratureAll Time Classics: Collection of Knut Hamsun; Henrik Ibsen; Mr John Steinbeck; Genevieve Behrend. This Combo Collection (Set of 4 Books) includes All-time Bestseller Books. This anthology contains: Hunger: Hunger... See More
Poetry & Drama
"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"... See More
Hedda Gabler returns, dissatisfied, from a long honeymoon. Bored by her aspiring academic husband, she foresees a life of tedious convention. And so, aided and abetted by her predatory confidante, Judge Brack, she begins to... See More
Women's Fiction"I Think That Before All Else I Am a Human Being, Just As Much As You Are -- Or At Least I will Try to Become One." -Henrik Ibsen in A Doll's House A Doll's House, the three-act play by Henrik Ibsen, which premiered at the... See More
Poetry & Drama
"Hedda Gabler" is a play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. The play was known as a masterpiece within literary realism, nineteenth-century theatre, and world drama genres. It tells the story of the title... See More
Poetry & Drama
This 1884 masterpiece may have its genesis in the hostile reception Ibsen -- widely regarded as the father of modern realist drama -- had received from the Norwegian public and critics for Ghosts (1881), which gave... See More
Poetry & Drama
Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Should the truth be pursued, whatever the cost? The idealistic son of a wealthy businessman seeks to expose his father's duplicity and to free his childhood... See More
Hedda Gabler features one of the stage's most unforgettable heroines -- a role coveted by actresses the world over. Ibsen's fascinating tale of obsession and manipulation was first staged in 1891. See More
Poetry & Drama
David Eldridge's new version of Ibsen's classic play, published to coincide with its premiere at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, October 2010. When the lighthouse keeper's daughter Ellida meets the widower Dr... See More
Poetry & Drama
In this radical new version of Peer Gynt, David Hare kidnaps Henrik Ibsen's most famous hero and runs away with him into the twenty-first century. Stripped of fretwork and greenery, the play is projected into a freewheeling... See More
Classics
Hedda Gabler is a play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. Ibsen was present at the world premiere, which took place on 31 January 1891 at the Residenztheater in Munich.[1] It is recognised as a classic of realism... See More
Poetry & Drama
A masterpiece of modern theater, Hedda Gabler is a dark psychological drama whose powerful and reckless heroine has tested the mettle of leading actresses of every generation since its first production in Norway in... See More
British & Irish
Niru is a young Bengali woman married to an English colonial bureaucrat - Tom. Tom loves Niru, exoticising her as a frivolous plaything to be admired and kept; but Niru has a long-kept secret, and just as she thinks she is... See More
Short Stories
Four Major Plays: Volume I A Doll House ? The Wild Duck ? Hedda Gabler ? The Master Builder Among the greatest and best known of Ibsen's works, these four plays brilliantly exemplify his landmark contributions to the... See More
Humour
British & Irish
'You've lies in the whites of your eyes, Nora. What have you done... ?' Nora is the perfect wife and mother. She is dutiful, beautiful and everything is always in its right place. But when a secret from her past comes back... See More
British & Irish
Nora is the perfect wife and mother. She is dutiful, beautiful and everything is always in its right place. But when a secret from her past comes back to haunt her, her life rapidly unravels. Over the course of three days... See More
Poetry & Drama
Ellida, the lighthouse-keeper's daughter, is trapped in her marriage and longs for the sea. When a former lover returns from years of absence, she is forced to decide between freedom and the new life she has made for... See More