A Doll's House and Other Plays With Pillars of the Community Ghosts and an Enemy of the People

Depicting one woman's struggle to be treated as a rational human being and not merely a wife mother or fragile doll this play changed the course of theatrical history and sparked debates worldwide about the roles of men and women in society.|Henrik Ibsen (Author) Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) is often called 'the Father of Modern Drama'. Born in Norway he left his homeland in 1864 for a 21-year long voluntary exile in Italy and Germany. After successes with the verse dramas Brand and Peer Gynt he turned to prose writing his great 12-play cycle of society dramas between 1877 and 1899. This included A Doll's House Ghosts Hedda Gabler The Master Builder and finally When We Dead Awaken.Deborah Dawkin (Translator) Deborah Dawkin is a researcher at University College London and the British Library. She has been a literary translator from Norwegian for the last ten years.Erik Skuggevik (Translator) Erik Skuggevik is a lecturer in Translation Studies at the University of Surrey and the University of Westminister.|A Doll's House/Ghosts/Pillars of the Community/An Enemy of the People'Our home has never been anything other than a play-house. I've been your doll-wife here just as at home I was Daddy's doll-child'These four plays established Ibsen as the leading figure in the theatre of his day sending shockwaves throughout Europe and beyond. A Doll's House scandalized audiences with its free-thinking heroine Nora. Ibsen's even more radical follow-up Ghosts exposes family secrets and sexual double-dealing while Pillars of the Community and An Enemy of the People both explore the hypocrisy and the dark tensions at the heart of society. This new translation the first to be based on the latest critical edition of Ibsen's works offers the best version available in English.A new translation by DEBORAH DAWKIN and ERIK SKUGGEVIK With an Introduction by TORE REM General Editor TORE REM