The Master Builder

by Henrik Ibsen

Overview

The most gripping of Ibsen's later, brooding self-portraits, The Master Builder explores the nature of a messianic hero pulled down from the heights to reside in the community of men, and now painfully laboring to drag himself up again. Plays for Performance Series.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781566630436
Publisher:	Dee, Ivan R. Publisher
Publication date:	03/01/1994
Series:	Plays for Performance Series
Edition description:	Plays for Performance Edition
Pages:	113
Product dimensions:	6.28(w) x 8.58(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) was a Norwegian playwright who thrived during the late nineteenth century. He began his professional career at age 15 as a pharmacist’s apprentice. He would spend his free time writing plays, publishing his first work Catilina in 1850, followed by The Burial Mound that same year. He eventually earned a position as a theatre director and began producing his own material. Ibsen’s prolific catalogue is noted for depicting modern and real topics. His major titles include Brand, Peer Gynt and Hedda Gabler.

Editorial Reviews

Here the Ibsen classic gets an overhaul to make the language more accessible to modern audiences. For nontraditionalists only.

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