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Peer Gynt and Brand (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780141197586)
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xA new Penguin edition of Ibsen's two great verse plays, in masterful versions by one of our greatest living poets, Geoffrey Hill.
These two powerful and contrasting verse dramas by Ibsen made his reputation as a playwright. The fantastical adventures of the irrepressible Peer Gynt - poet, idler, procrastinator, seducer - draw on Norwegian folklore to conjure up mountains, kidnappings, shipwrecks and trolls in an exuberant examination of truth and the self; while Brand, an unsparing vision of an idealistic priest who lives by his steely faith, explores free will and sacrifice. This volume brings together the poet Geoffrey Hill's acclaimed stage version of Brand with a new poetic rendering of Peer Gynt, published for the first time. This Penguin edition includes an interview with Geoffrey Hill about recreating Ibsen in English, an introduction by Janet Garton and editorial materials by Tore Rem.Author: Henrik Ibsen
ISBN-10: 0141197587
ISBN-13: 9780141197586
Publisher: Penguin Group
Language: English
Published: 02/07/2017
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 1.00d
By Henrik Ibsen
xHenrik Ibsen (1828-1906) is often called "the Father of Modern Drama." Born in Norway in 1828, he enjoyed successes with the verse dramas Brand and Peer Gynt before embarking on his great twelve-play cycle of society dramas, which included A Doll's House and Ghosts. After twenty-one years of self-imposed exile in Italy and Germany, Ibsen died in Norway. Geoffrey Hill (translator), an English poet, was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford from 2010 to 2015. He has published many volumes of poetry and critical writing, and his Broken Hierarchies: Collected Poems 1952-2012 appeared in 2013.
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