Ibsen's Selected Plays易卜生戏剧选

Ibsen ascended to the first ranks of European writers in the late nineteenth century and has remained there ever since. The Norton Critical Edition includes five major plays spanning Ibsen’s long career in recent translations by Brian Johnston (Peer Gynt, The Wild Duck, and The Master Builder) and Brian Johnston and Rick Davis (A Doll House and Hedda Gabler). The translation of Peer Gynt appears for the first time in this Norton Critical Edition.
　　“Backgrounds” gives students an understanding of Ibsen’s creative process with selections from his correspondence and other writings. Twenty-seven documents have been collected and arranged by play, with a section of autobiographical writings at the end.
　　Ibsen’s plays continue to provoke diverse commentary. “Criticism” includes nineteen of the most important responses to Ibsen’s work, among them essays by Bernard Shaw, Sandra Saari, E. M. Forster, Hugh Kenner, and Joan Templeton.
　　A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

Brian Johnston is Professor of Dramatic Literature at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of To the Third Empire: Ibsen's Early Drama, Text and Supertext in Ibsen's Drama and The Ibsen Cycle. He is translator, with Rick Davis, of Ibsen: Volume I: Four Major Plays and translator of Ibsen, Volume II: Four Major Plays.

Ibsen ascended to the first ranks of European writers in the late nineteenth century and has remained there ever since. The Norton Critical Edition includes five major plays spanning Ibsen's long career in recent translations by Brian Johnston (Peer Gynt, The Wild Duck, and The Master Builder) and Brian Johnston and Rick Davis (A Doll House and Hedda Gabler). The translation of Peer Gynt appears for the first time in this Norton Critical Edition.

"Backgrounds" gives students an understanding of Ibsen's creative process with selections from his correspondence and other writings. Twenty-seven documents have been collected and arranged by play, with a section of autobiographical writings at the end.

Ibsen's plays continue to provoke diverse commentary. "Criticism" includes nineteen of the most important responses to Ibsen's work, among them essays by Bernard Shaw, Sandra Saari, E. M. Forster, Hugh Kenner, and Joan Templeton.

A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

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Introduction
The Text of the Plays
　Peer Gynt
　The Realist Cycle
　A Doll House
　The Wild Duck
　Hedda Gabler
　The Master Builder
　Backgrounds
　CORRESPONDENCE AND DOCUMENTS
　Peer Gynt
　To Björnstjerne Björnson, 9 December 1867
　To Björnstjerne Björnson, 28 December 1867
　To Edward Grieg, 23 January 1874
　To Ludwig Passarge, 16 June 1880
　To Edmund Gosse, 15 January 1874
　A Doll House
　The Alternative German Ending
　To the Nationaltidende, 17 February 1880
　To Heinrich Laube, 18 February 1880
　To Moritz Prozor, 23 January 1891
　Speech at the Banquet of the Norwegian League for Women’s Rights
　The Wild Duck
　To Frederik Hegel, 2 September 1884
　To Hans Schrøder, 14 November 1884
　To August Lindberg, 22 November 1884
　Hedda Gabler
　To Moritz Prozor, 4 December 1890]
　To Hans Schrøder, 27 December 1890
　To Kristina Steen, 14 January 1891
　Autobiographical
　Sketch of Childhood
　To Magdalene Thoresen, 3 December 1865
　To Björnstjerne Björnson, 28 January 1865
　To Geor(e) Brandes, 20 December 1870
　To Geor(e) Brandes, 17 February 1871
　To Geor(e) Brandes, 24 September 1871
　To Geor(e) Brandes, 30 April 1873
　To John Paulsen, 20 September 1879
　To Geor(e) Brandes, 11 October 1896
　To Geor(e) Brandes, 3 June 1897
　To the Reader
Criticism
　PEER GYNT
　W. H. Auden—Genius and Apostl
　A DOLL HOUSE
　Bernard Shaw—A Doll’s House Again
　Rolf Fjelde—Introduction to A Doll House
　Sandra Saari—Female Becomes Human: Nora Transformed
　THE WILD DUCK
　J.S. Welhaven—Søfuglen (The Sea Bird)
　Rainer Maria Rilke—Letter to Clara Rilke
　Michael Goldman—Style as Vision: The Wild Duck, Child Abuse, and History
　HEDDA GABLER
　Henry James—On the Occasion of Hedda Gabler
　THE MASTER BUILDER
　Henry James—On the Occasion of The Master Builder
　Brian Johnston—Plot and Story in The Master Builder
　GENERAL THEMES
　Einar Haugen—Poetry in the Round
　Jeanette Lee—Ibsen’s Symbolism Define