Books by Henrik Ibsen

Portrait of Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen, often hailed as the father of modern drama, transformed nineteenth‑century theatre with his bold realism and psychological insight. His plays challenged social conventions, dissecting issues of morality, gender, and individual freedom through sharply drawn characters and meticulous structure. Readers and theatre‑goers alike continue to find his work startlingly contemporary, as it confronts the conflicts between duty and desire that remain universal.

From the tension of domestic life in *A Doll's House* to the moral dilemmas of *An Enemy of the People*, Ibsen's writing exposes the hidden truths beneath everyday respectability. His influence resonates through generations of playwrights and novelists who followed, each indebted to his fearless exploration of human motivation and the cost of integrity.

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  • Creative Media Partners, LLC The Prose Dramas Of Henrik Ibsen

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  • Creative Media Partners, LLC The Prose Dramas Of Henrik Ibsen

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  • Creative Media Partners, LLC Rosmersholm

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  • Creative Media Partners, LLC Rosmersholm

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    £14.96

  • A Dolls House

    Digireads.com A Dolls House

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  • A Dolls House Translated by R Farquharson Sharp with an Introduction by William Archer

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    £10.66

  • Peer Gynt  A Dramatic Poem  Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

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    £32.29

  • Peer Gynt  A Dramatic Poem  Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

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  • Hedda Gabler

    Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Hedda Gabler

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    Book SynopsisHedda is an intelligent and ambitious woman, trapped in the stifling environment of a bourgeois 19th-century marriage. When writer Eilert Loevborg, an old flame returns to Hedda's life with a masterpiece that might threaten her husband's career, Hedda decides to take drastic and fatal action.

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    £40.00

  • Hedda Gabler

    SMK Books Hedda Gabler

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    £21.53

  • An Enemy of the People

    Ivan R Dee, Inc An Enemy of the People

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    Book SynopsisNicholas Rudall, whose acclaimed translations of Ibsen and the Greek classic playwrights have brought a fresh perspective to the American theater, turns his talents to one of the Norwegian dramatist's most provocative plays. In a rebuke to the Victorian notion of community as well as to the blessings of democracy, Ibsen creates a situation in which one man must stand alone to face the forces allied against him. In a coastal town, a community-minded physician has promoted the development of public baths in order to attract tourists. When he discovers that the water supply for the baths is contaminated and attempts to publicize the failing and correct it, he and his family are all but driven out of the town he was trying to save.Trade ReviewA new translation by Nicholas Rudall brings fresh perspective to Ibsen's drama. * Publishers Weekly *

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    £11.64

  • A Doll's House

    Watchmaker Publishing A Doll's House

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  • A Doll's House

    Serenity Publishers, LLC A Doll's House

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  • Thirteen Plays by Ibsen, including (complete and unabridged): Peer Gynt, Pillars of Society, A Doll's House, Ghosts, An Enemy of The People, The Wild Duck, Rosmersholm, The Lady from the Sea, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder, Little Eyolf,

    15 in stock

    £59.99

  • Peer Gynt

    Benediction Classics Peer Gynt

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    £17.58

  • A Doll's House

    Aziloth Books A Doll's House

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    £10.23

  • Peer Gynt: Poème Dramatique En 5 Actes

    Hachette Livre - BNF Peer Gynt: Poème Dramatique En 5 Actes

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    £19.57

  • The Master Builder: in large print

    Outlook Verlag The Master Builder: in large print

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    £28.40

  • Die Stützen der Gesellschaft

    Outlook Verlag Die Stützen der Gesellschaft

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    £21.76

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  • Nora Or a Dolls House Et Dukkehjem a Play Classic Reprint

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    £19.94

  • The Master Builder

    Ivan R Dee, Inc The Master Builder

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    Book SynopsisThe most gripping of Ibsen’s later, brooding self-portraits, The Master Builder explores the nature of a messianic hero pulled down from the heights to reside in the community of men, and now painfully laboring to drag himself up again. Thanks to Mr. Rudall’s fresh translation, the language of the play is no longer archaic or Victorian.

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    £8.79

  • The League of Youth

    Nick Hern Books The League of Youth

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    Book SynopsisIbsen's political comedy in a crisp and satirical version by Andy Barrett. Bratsberg is a man of tradition. He thinks manners, knowledge and education are the foundations of a good society, but are his values dated? Monsen is an entrepreneur who believes success comes from hard work, but can he be trusted? Stensgard is a radical. He can see that change is beckoning and that he should be the man to drive progress forward. But when real power becomes a possibility how will he respond? A play about political ambition and opportunism, the conflicts of class, the difficulties of breaking open long established systems, and the ways in which political expediency can lay waste to idealism. Written as a response to political change in Norway, The League of Youth was Henrik Ibsen's first truly successful play, and is a clear precursor to The Pillars of Society, A Doll's House and An Enemy of the People. Its vivid characters are instantly recognisable as the prototypes for many of his greatest creations. This English version by Andy Barrett was first staged at Nottingham Playhouse in 2011.Trade Review'Andy Barrett's new version does an excellent job… allows us, without pushing the point, to savour the topicality of a play in which principles are sacrificed for power' * Guardian *'A wonderful adaptation' * Left Lion *'Andy Barrett's new version brings fresh meaning to what I suspect is an impenetrable original' * Whatsonstage.com *

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  • Hedda Gabler

    Nick Hern Books Hedda Gabler

    Book SynopsisA wife, a muse, a coward, a heretic. Hedda Gabler is something to everyone, yet has no idea who she is to herself. Trapped by convention and by her own irreconcilable nature, will she have the courage to shape her own destiny? Mark O'Rowe's fluid yet faithful adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's masterpiece Hedda Gabler was premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in April 2015.

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  • Little Eyolf

    Nick Hern Books Little Eyolf

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    Book SynopsisIbsen's forensic examination of a marriage as it falls apart, in a version by Richard Eyre. How is a life well-lived? Alfred Allmers comes home to his wife Rita and makes a decision. Casting aside his writing, he dedicates himself to raising his son. But one event is about to change his life forever. Little Eyolf was first performed in 1894. This new version, adapted and directed by Richard Eyre, premiered at the Almeida Theatre, London, in 2015. The third in a trilogy of revelatory Ibsens, Little Eyolf follows Richard Eyre's multi-award-winning adaptations of Ghosts (Almeida, West End and BAM, New York), and Hedda Gabler (Almeida and West End).Trade Review'As quick, clean and shocking as a naked plunge into a winter fjord... a play awash with desire, reproach and grief' * Sunday Times *'Quietly shattering' * Independent *'An evening of shocking intensity... vividly captures what Henry James called "the hard compulsion" of Ibsen's terrifying masterpiece' * Guardian *'Eyre [is] the country's foremost illuminator of [Ibsen]... [he] reveals the play as a masterly study of how unhappiness corrodes us... an extraordinary stew of violent misery' * Observer *'Naturalism intermingles with expressionism, and slips, subtly, into something poetic and profoundly existential' * WhatsOnStage *'Laden with atmosphere… feels astonishingly contemporary' * Evening Standard *

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  • The Wild Duck

    Nick Hern Books The Wild Duck

    Book SynopsisDrama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Should the truth be pursued, whatever the cost? The idealistic son of a wealthy businessman seeks to expose his father's duplicity and to free his childhood friend from the lies on which his happy home life is based. Henrik Ibsen's play The Wild Duck, considered a masterpiece of modern tragicomedy, was premiered in January 1885 at Den Nationale Scene, Bergen, Norway. This English translation by Stephen Mulrine is published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, with a full introduction.

    £6.12

  • Nora oder Ein Puppenheim

    Klett (Ernst) Verlag,Stuttgart Nora oder Ein Puppenheim

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    £10.70

  • Schoeningh Verlag Ein Volksfeind EinFach Deutsch Textausgaben

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  • Schoeningh Verlag Ein Volksfeind. EinFach Deutsch

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  • Philipp Reclam Jun Verlag GmbH Nora Ein Puppenheim Schauspiel in drei Akten

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  • Reclam Philipp Jun. Ein Volksfeind

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  • Reclam Philipp Jun. Peer Gynt Ein dramatisches Gedicht

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  • Reclam Philipp Jun. Die Wildente Schauspiel in fnf Akten

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  • Hedda Gabler Schauspiel in vier Akten

    Reclam Philipp Jun. Hedda Gabler Schauspiel in vier Akten

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  • Reclam Philipp Jun. John Gabriel Borkman Schauspiel in vier Akten

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  • Reclam Philipp Jun. Nora Ein Puppenheim von Henrik Ibsen

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  • Reclam Philipp Jun. Nora Ein Puppenheim. Textausgabe mit Kommentar

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  • Reclam Philipp Jun. Baumeister Solness

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  • Reclam Philipp Jun. Sttzen der Gesellschaft

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  • Reclam Philipp Jun. Gespenster Ein Familiendrama in drei Akten

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  • Rowohlt Taschenbuch Nora oder Ein Puppenhaus Hedda Gabler Baumeister

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    £12.26

  • Suhrkamp Verlag AG Gespenster Ein Familiendrama in drei Akten

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    £8.50

  • Verlag Der Autoren Dramen in einem Band

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    £35.20

  • HardPress Publishing Kejser Og Galilæer Et Verdenshistorisk Skuespil

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    £18.95

  • HardPress Publishing John Gabriel Borkman Skuespil I Fire Akter

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  • Hardpress Publishing Der Bund Der Jugend Lustspiel in Fnf Aufzgen 1

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  • HardPress Publishing The Richard Mansfield Acting Version of Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen

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    £12.92

  • Alianza Editorial Un enemigo del pueblo drama en cinco actos

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    Book SynopsisPublicada en 1882, " Un enemigo del pueblo " no hace más que refrendar la actualidad de Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), uno de los fundadores indiscutibles del teatro moderno. Autor de sólidas convicciones éticas, rebelde al corsé de las tradiciones, las convenciones y las imposiciones sociales, ?políticamente incorrecto? en su día igual que hoy, la obra toca el delicado punto de la auténtica representatividad de la democracia, sujeta en el mundo real a las presiones de los intereses políticos y económicos y de los variados instrumentos de que se sirven para perpetuar un poder que puede mudar su apariencia, pero que es siempre el mismo.Prólogo de Juan Antonio Garrido Ardila

    1 in stock

    £17.06

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