The Plays of Ibsen, Volume 4

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Washington Square Press, 1986 - Drama - 513 pages

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Contents

Introduction to PEER GYNT 4
23
Notes
193
Introduction to ROSMERSHOLM
203
Copyright

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About the author (1986)

Henrik Ibsen, poet and playwright was born in Skein, Norway, in 1828. His creative work spanned 50 years, from 1849-1899, and included 25 plays and numerous poems. During his middle, romantic period (1840-1875), Ibsen wrote two important dramatic poems, Brand and Peer Gynt, while the period from 1875-1899 saw the creation of 11 realistic plays with contemporary settings, the most famous of which are A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, and The Wild Duck. Henrik Ibsen died in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway in 1906.

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