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Ghosts : a family drama in three acts / by Henrik Ibsen ; a new translation by Lanford Wilson.
- Title
- Ghosts : a family drama in three acts / by Henrik Ibsen ; a new translation by Lanford Wilson.
- Author
- Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906
- Publication
- New York, N.Y. : Dramatists Play Service, 2003.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PT8865 .A387 2003 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Wilson, Lanford, 1937-
- Description
- 56 p.; 20 cm.
- Summary
- In 1881 Ibsen rocked the literary and theatrical worlds with the publication of GHOSTS, a play so controversial in its time that even the head of Nya Teatern, one of Stockholm’s major theatres, called it “one of the filthiest things ever written in Scandanavia.” Once the uproar had died down, audiences proved far more receptive to Ghosts than the literati had initially been, and while its dramatic subjects of promiscuity, incest and sexually transmitted disease no longer arouse the feverish denunciations of Ibsen’s time, their treatment retains the power that has made the play a masterpiece of Western literature. In this crackling new translation, celebrated playwright Lanford Wilson has revivified Ghosts for a new audience, and as we too continue to confront the specter of horrifying sexual disease, Ghosts has never seemed more profoundly relevant. -- Publisher's website.
- Uniform Title
- Gengangere. English
- Alternative Title
- Gengangere.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Scripts.
- Drama
- Théâtre.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Norwegian.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 0822218704
- OCLC
- 54891981
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library