The Master Builder
Series: Drama Classics
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Paperback, 124 pages ISBN: 9781854593511Publication Date:
12 Jun 1997
Size: 160mm x 107mm£4.99 £3.99You save £1.00 (20%)
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Original: 1893

The Master Builder

By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Kenneth McLeish

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Ibsen's study of the corrosive effects of a guilty conscience.

Solness, the master builder of the title, is a self-made and successful businessman. He has stopped building the churches and towers of his youth in order to concentrate on ordinary houses for people, ever since the home that his wife inherited burnt down, with their own children inside. His guilty feelings of worthlessness spur him into absurd power struggles in his office, but he is forced to face his guilt when the provocative Hilde arrives with her story from the past...

Henrik Ibsen's play The Master Builder was first published in 1892 and first performed in January 1893 at the Lessing Theatre in Berlin.

This English version, published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, is translated and introduced by Kenneth McLeish.

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'Disturbing masterpiece'

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'Kenneth McLeish's fine translation that makes witty play with colloquialism'

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Series: Drama Classics
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Paperback,124 pages ISBN: 9781854593511Publication Date:
12 Jun 1997
Size: 160mm x 107mm£4.99 £3.99You save £1.00 (20%)

Also by Henrik Ibsen:

Nora : A Doll's House
Ghosts
Rosmersholm
Rosmersholm
Little Eyolf
A Master Builder
John Gabriel Borkman
An Enemy of the People
An Enemy of the People
Emperor and Galilean
Ibsen: Three Plays
A Doll's House
Hedda Gabler
Ghosts
Hedda Gabler
The Wild Duck
Hedda Tesman
The Lady From the Sea
Hedda
The Lady from the Sea
A Doll's House
Hedda Gabler
Judgement Day
John Gabriel Borkman
John Gabriel Borkman
An Enemy of the People
Peer Gynt
The Master Builder
Peer Gynt
The League of Youth

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Also by Kenneth McLeish:

Hedda Gabler
Ibsen: Three Plays
A Flea in Her Ear
An Italian Straw Hat
Ubu
Peer Gynt
Poetics
The Lady From the Sea
Miss Julie
Women of Troy
A Doll's House
Oedipus
Don Juan
Bacchae
Rosmersholm
Medea

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