Book description
Ibsen's twelve outstanding plays, from Pillars of Society to When We Dead Awaken, are accompanied by brief introductions illuminating the distinctive features of each
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I was able to grasp and comprehend Ibsen’s entire dramatic output and see it as one continuous and coherent whole. The twelve plays included here actually comprise one single work, which shows human beings in every major aspect of their lives.
The plays are written in a variety of styles, from detailed realism to near dreamlike symbolism, but over and over they bring out clearly the roles society forces on women, the ways family guilt poisons future generations, the force of sexual desire, and the ways society confronts individuals who are unable to fulfill the destiny expected of them.
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