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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  • Antigonos Verlag Die Wildente

    £44.91

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  • Prodinnova Catilina

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  • Prodinnova Peer Gynt

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  • Prodinnova La Dame de la Mer

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  • Prodinnova Le Canard sauvage

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  • Prodinnova Rosmersholm

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  • Micheal Smith Hedda GablerIllustrated

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  • Insight Publica A DOLLS HOUSE

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  • Insight Publica Ghosts

    £14.98

  • Canopus Editorial Digital LLC Casa de muñecas. Un enemigo del pueblo

    £15.20

  • Les prairies numériques A Dolls House

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  • Les prairies numériques Ghosts

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  • Les prairies numériques Hedda Gabler

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  • Culturea A Dolls House

    £25.33

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  • 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.

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  • Schoeningh Verlag Ein Volksfeind. EinFach Deutsch

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    £30.40

  • Reclam Philipp Jun. Ein Volksfeind

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    £7.36

  • Reclam Philipp Jun. Peer Gynt Ein dramatisches Gedicht

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    3 in stock

    £8.47

  • Reclam Philipp Jun. Die Wildente Schauspiel in fnf Akten

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    7 in stock

    £8.01

  • Hedda Gabler Schauspiel in vier Akten

    Reclam Philipp Jun. Hedda Gabler Schauspiel in vier Akten

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    7 in stock

    £7.56

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

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    2 in stock

    £7.34

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

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    15 in stock

    £7.88

  • Reclam Philipp Jun. Baumeister Solness

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  • Reclam Philipp Jun. Sttzen der Gesellschaft

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    7 in stock

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  • Reclam Philipp Jun. Gespenster Ein Familiendrama in drei Akten

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    7 in stock

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  • Verlag Der Autoren Dramen in einem Band

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    3 in stock

    £35.20

  • HardPress Publishing Kejser Og Galilæer Et Verdenshistorisk Skuespil

    15 in stock

    a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

    15 in stock

    £18.95

  • HardPress Publishing John Gabriel Borkman Skuespil I Fire Akter

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    15 in stock

    £15.15

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

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    15 in stock

    £14.20

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

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    15 in stock

    £12.92

  • Alianza Editorial Un enemigo del pueblo drama en cinco actos

    10 in stock

    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

    10 in stock

    £20.25

  • Ediciones Cátedra Casa de munecas El pato salvaje Doll House The

    2 in stock

    Book SynopsisHenrik Ibsen (1828-1906) nació en Noruega, en un medio en el que imperaba una moral estrecha de miras, una vigencia desesperante de la superstición y del miedo. Todo a su alrededor era considerado pecado, todo merecía un reproche, una advertencia sobre el posible mal que podría acarrear cualquier acción que se emprendiera. Por eso sus personajes no se contentan con vivir la vida cotidiana, necesitan un proyecto que realizar aunque éste sobrepase sus fuerzas y les haga sentirse solos, incomprendidos e incluso derrotados, pero orgullosos por haberse aventurado a conseguirlo. En Casa de muñecas y El pato salvaje plantea Ibsen la tragedia de la mentira vital. Nora Helmer, en Casa de muñecas, es una joven que ha sido educada para llevar una venda en los ojos y servir de juguete primero a su padre y luego a su marido. Cuando la venda cae, Nora comienza a ser alguien. Gregorio Werle, en El pato salvaje, concibe un proyecto para poner al descubierto a unos seres hipócritas, egoístas e indignos

    2 in stock

    £14.72

  • Casa de Munecas; el pato salvaje; espectros

    Editorial Edaf S.A. Casa de Munecas; el pato salvaje; espectros

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £13.17

  • Nordica Libros Casa de Munecas & Solness, El Constructor

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    £19.00

  • Ibsens Selected Plays

    WW Norton & Co Ibsens Selected Plays

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisIbsen ascended to the first ranks of European writers in the late nineteenth century and has remained there ever since.

    10 in stock

    £16.99

  • Random House USA Inc Four Great Plays by Ibsen Bantam Classics

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisHere, in a single volume, are four major plays by the first modern playwright, Henrick Ibsen. Ghosts—The startling portrayal of a family destroyed by disease and infidelity. The Wild Duck—A poignant drama of lost illusions. An Enemy Of The People—Ibsen’s vigorous attack on public opinion.  And A Doll's House—The play that scandalized the Victorian world with its unsparing views of love and marriage, featuring one of the most controversial heroines—and one of the most famous exists—in the literature of the stage.

    10 in stock

    £8.42

  • Les Belles Lettres Etre Soi-Meme

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    1 in stock

    £22.39

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