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 Klein Eyolf

    £53.91

  • Antigonos Verlag Brand

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  • Antigonos Verlag Die Wildente

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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

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

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  • 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

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  • Four Major Plays Vol.1

    Penguin Putnam Inc Four Major Plays Vol.1

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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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  • 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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    £9.49

  • 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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    £9.49

  • 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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  • Nora oder Ein Puppenheim

    Klett (Ernst) Verlag,Stuttgart Nora oder Ein Puppenheim

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  • 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. Nora Ein Puppenheim von Henrik Ibsen

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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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  • Suhrkamp Verlag AG Gespenster Ein Familiendrama in drei Akten

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  • 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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