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The plays Ibsen wrote from 1877 to 1899 stretched the boundaries of modern theater. At once realistic and intensely transcendental, they acknowledge the dryness of everyday life and the rich spiritual and psychological depths hidden by that mundanity. Each play in this volume--The Lady from the Sea (1888), Little Eyolf (1894), John Gabriel Borkman (1896), and When We Dead Awaken (1899)--recognizes not only that some seem fated to suffer tragedy (unrequited love, business failure, untimely death) but that tragedy is not final for them. The human spirit moves on. Some outgrow misfortune. Others allow calamity to torture and twist them until some unforeseen event pulls them back on track. As in the previous two volumes of Johnston's labors with Ibsen (Davis is his occasional collaborator), the simple, unpretentious translations are a joy to read, unlike most previous Englishings of Ibsen. Johnston preserves all that is lively and quick in these classics, and it is easy to imagine that these versions will prove as graceful onstage as they are on the page. Jack Helbig --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Fine translations and strong dialogue mark a powerful collection. -- Midwest Book Review Service, January 1999 --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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The plays Ibsen wrote from 1877 to 1899 stretched the boundaries of modern theater. At once realistic and intensely transcendental, they acknowledge the dryness of everyday life and the rich spiritual and psychological depths hidden by that mundanity. Each play in this volume--The Lady from the Sea (1888), Little Eyolf (1894), John Gabriel Borkman (1896), and When We Dead Awaken (1899)--recognizes not only that some seem fated to suffer tragedy (unrequited love, business failure, untimely death) but that tragedy is not final for them. The human spirit moves on. Some outgrow misfortune. Others allow calamity to torture and twist them until some unforeseen event pulls them back on track. As in the previous two volumes of Johnston's labors with Ibsen (Davis is his occasional collaborator), the simple, unpretentious translations are a joy to read, unlike most previous Englishings of Ibsen. Johnston preserves all that is lively and quick in these classics, and it is easy to imagine that these versions will prove as graceful onstage as they are on the page. Jack Helbig --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Fine translations and strong dialogue mark a powerful collection. -- Midwest Book Review Service, January 1999 --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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