Ghosts

by Henrik Ibsen, Nicholas Rudall (Translator)

Overview

A play of stinging contemporaneity—about religious and societal hypocrisy, guilt that feeds on innocence, the terror of the inevitable, and the battle between truth and darkness, freedom and constraint. Plays for Performance Series.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781461694892
Publisher:	Dee, Ivan R. Publisher
Publication date:	10/01/1990
Series:	Plays for Performance Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	100
File size:	214 KB

About the Author

The Plays for Performance series is edited by Nicholas Rudall, former artistic director of the Court Theatre at the University of Chicago where he is professor of classics, and Bernard Sahlins, founder and director of the Second City. They both live in Chicago, Illinois.

Editorial Reviews

...a crisp, clear and often lyrical translation...

Arizona Daily Star

...frank and bold...

Green Valley News

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.” —The New Statesman

From the Publisher

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.

The New Statesman