Enemy of the People Four Major Plays, Volume II

Henrik Johan Ibsen, Rolf Fjelde, Terry Otten

Perfection Learning Corporation, 2001 - Drama - 415 pages

Four of Ibsen's plays centering upon personal awakening and inner transformation through confrontations with family guilt, social hypocrisy, conventional and sexual morality, and the materialistic bourgeois ethic are collected in this second volume of his major plays. Includes "Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, The Lady from the Sea", and "John Gabriel Borkman". Also includes a new afterword.

About the author

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. Otten is Kenneth E. Wray Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Enemy of the People Four Major Plays, Volume II; Signet Classics
• Authors: Henrik Johan Ibsen, Rolf Fjelde, Terry Otten
• Translated by: Rolf Fjelde
• Contributor: Terry Otten
• Publisher: Perfection Learning Corporation, 2001
• ISBN: 0812418050, 9780812418057
• Length: 415 pages
• Subjects: Drama / European / General; Drama / General; Literary Criticism / European / Scandinavian; Literary Criticism / General