The Wild Duck

Extensive materials for the study of the backgrounds and sources of the play are included. Among these transcripts sources of the play are included. Among these are transcripts of Ibsen's notes and jottings and early drafts, selections from Ibsen's letters as he worked toward the final version, and materials suggesting biographical sources. The critical essays and opinions give the student a wide variety of points of view from which to come to his own judgments of this important play.

About the author

The Plays for Performance series is edited by Nicholas Rudall, former artistic director of the Court Theatre at the University of Chicago where he is professor of classics, and Bernard Sahlins, founder and director of the Second City. They both live in Chicago, Illinois.

Summary

The only play in which Ibsen denies the validity of revolt, The Wild Duck suggests that under certain conditions, domestic falsehoods are entirely necessary to survival. Plays for Performance Series.

Product details

• Authors: Henrik Ibsen
• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781566631709
• ISBN: 978-1-56663-170-9
• No. of pages: 146
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 217 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 181 g
• Series: Plays for Performance Series; American Repertory Theatre S; Plays for Performance; Plays for Performance Series; American Repertory Theatre S
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet