
Peer Gynt
Henrik Ibsen(Author)
Oxford University Press
Published on 28. May 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-19-955553-6 (ISBN)
Description
Peer Gynt was Ibsen's last work to use poetry as a medium of dramatic expression, and the poetry is brilliantly appropriate to the imaginative swings between Scandinavian oral folk traditions, the Morrocan coast, the Sahara Desert, and the absurdist images of the Cairo madhouse. This translation is taken from the acclaimed Oxford Ibsen.
John McFarlane is Emeritus Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia, and General Editor of the Oxford Ibsen.
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John McFarlane is Emeritus Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia, and General Editor of the Oxford Ibsen.
ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Reviews / Votes
'Christopher Fry, a poet of genius, has added, in his translation of Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt, a new work of genius to English Literature. Peer Gynt never 'read right' in English before. Now it does.'Dr R.C. Poole, Dept. of English, University of Nottingham 'an ultimately bleak but nonetheless entertaining classic'
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
144 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-955553-6 (9780199555536)
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