Peer Gynt A Dramatic Poem

Peer Gynt A Dramatic Poem

Author: Ibsen, Henrik with illustrations by Arthur Rackham

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4to. (7.25" x 9.75") Full russet publisher's cloth with gilt title/author/illustrator and line drawing of two sprites to upper board. Spine with gilt author/title/illustrator to head and gilt publisher to foot. With Brodart cover over illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket with minor chipping and small loss to head and foot of spine, not affecting text. A Fine book in a very good dust jacket. Illustrated with 12 full page, captioned tissue guarded illustrations by Arthur Rackham.

From Wiki: Henrik Johan Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of realism" and one of the most influential playwrights of his time. His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, The Wild Duck, When We Dead Awaken, Rosmersholm, and The Master Builder. Ibsen is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare, and A Doll's House was the world's most performed play in 2006. Ibsen's early poetic and cinematic play Peer Gynt has strong surreal elements. After Peer Gynt Ibsen abandoned verse and wrote in realistic prose. Several of his later dramas were considered scandalous to many of his era, when European theatre was expected to model strict morals of family life and propriety. Ibsen's later work examined the realities that lay behind the façades, revealing much that was disquieting to a number of his contemporaries. He had a critical eye and conducted a free inquiry into the conditions of life and issues of morality. In many critics' estimates The Wild Duck and Rosmersholm are "vying with each other as rivals for the top place among Ibsen's works"; Ibsen himself regarded Emperor and Galilean as his masterpiece.

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