Ghosts - Henrik Ibsen - Books - Independently Published - 9798682022311 - September 17, 2020
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Ghosts

Book Excerpt: ...ts may well rank as Ibsen's greatest work. It was the play which first gave the full measure of his technical and spiritual originality and daring. It has done far more than any other of his plays to "move boundary-posts." It has advanced the frontiers of dramatic art and implanted new ideals, both technical and intellectual, in the minds of a whole generation of playwrights. It ranks with Hernani and _La Dame aux Camélias_ among the epoch-making plays of the nineteenth century, while in point of essential originality it towers above them. We cannot, I think, get nearer to the truth than Georg Brandes did in the above-quoted phrase from his first notice of the play, describing it as not, perhaps, the poet's greatest work, but certainly his noblest deed. In another essay, Brandes has pointed to it, with equal justice, as marking Ibsen's final breach with his early-one might almost say his hereditary romanticism. He here becomes, at last, "the most modern of the moderns." "This, I am convinced," s...

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released September 17, 2020
ISBN13 9798682022311
Publishers Independently Published
Pages 90
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 5 mm   ·   131 g
Language English  

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