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Four Major Plays: Volume 1: A Doll House; The Wild Duck; Hedda Gabler; The Master Builder (Signet Classics) (Mass Market Paperback)

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Key Phrases: little lark, dropping his voice, Eilert Lovborg, Aunt Julie, Miss Wangel (more...)

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Among the greatest and best known of Ibsen's works, these four plays--A Doll's House, The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder--brilliantly embody his landmark contributions to the theater. Rich in symbolism and often autobiographical, each work deals convincingly with the human emotions of greed, fear, and sexual hostility, and confronts the external conflicts between reality and illusion. Reissue.

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Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Signet Classics (January 1, 1965)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0451524063
ISBN-13: 978-0451524065
Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.2 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces

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Eilert Lovborg, Aunt Julie, Miss Wangel, Judge Brack, Hjalmar Ekdal, George Tesman, Hedda Gabler, Lieutenant Ekdal, Miss Fosli, Auntie Rina, Gregers Werle, Mademoiselle Diana

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The Wild Duck (Dover Thrift Editions) by Henrik Ibsen on 7 pages
Hedda Gabler (Dover Thrift Editions) by Henrik Ibsen on 6 pages
Peer Gynt : A Dramatic Poem (Oxford World's Classics) by Henrik Ibsen on 5 pages
Pillars of Society: A Play in Four Acts by Henrik Ibsen on 4 pages
Master Builder (Dover Thrift Editions) by Henrik Ibsen on 4 pages

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4.0 out of 5 stars Hedda Gabler, February 19, 1998

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Hedda gabler is a tale of a woman in the victorian ages. She was recently married to a man who considered writing a book "The Brabant in the middle ages" an exiting topic. She is torn between the role she must portray and the role she wants. The play shows the fall from grace and the decline of Hedda Gablers power. It is a powerful play and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Anyone who read the play and wants to help me with a staging essay. amieDicaprio@yahoo.com

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5.0 out of 5 stars Compelling classics, May 19, 2006

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I had to read A Doll House and the Wild Duck for one of my classes, and this was the edition recommended to us by the professor. I was so caught up in Ibsen that I went back and read Hedda Gabler and Master Builder in my spare time, and was not disappointed.

For those who are not familar with Ibsen, his plays are studies of human interaction and psychology, and this collection slants towards the tragic (meaning that it's not quite over until someone dies). There's certain patterns readers will notice, how characters lives are inter-connected by past secrets or relations they haven't been quite honest about, and how a character's unfulfilled life is linked to past actions and someone else's meddling hand. But it's all very compelling, and once you've gotten the names straight and how everyone is related to each other, you're sucked into the drama of these lives.

Of course if you don't like your modern drama depressing then this might not be for you. But any serious playwright/drama student needs to read Ibsen, and this is a fine place to start.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Engrossing!, March 1, 2001

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Ibsen is one of the most important playwrights to ever grace this earth, and it is not difficult to see why after reading this collection of plays. "The Doll House" is immediately fascinating, perhaps the easiest to understand out of this group of plays. It teaches the lesson that one must learn to stand on one's own, to carry out the clich� -- "to find oneself" -- but the lesson is not learned by the main character until the stage has been skillfully set in order to make the ending all the more compelling. The strongest play is perhaps "Hedda Gabler," whose upper class heroine, Hedda, is one of the most abstract and intriguing female characters ever written for a play. Devious and suffocating in her new middle class surroundings after marrying a rather dull man, her frustrations play out and alienate the other characters. The other characters are not merely accessories; they ARE the play when one juxtaposes them with Hedda. "The Wild Duck" is not as strong a play, and the dullest of the group, but is also worth a read. Overall, the collection is a quick and engrossing read.

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