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Description for The Wild Duck
Paperback. Should the truth be pursued whatever the cost? The idealistic son of a wealthy businessman seeks to expose his father's duplicity and to free his childhood friend from the lies on which his happy home life is based. Translator(s): Mulrine, Stephen. Series: Drama Classics. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 107 x 10. Weight in Grams: 120. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
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Should the truth be pursued, whatever the cost? The idealistic son of a wealthy businessman seeks to expose his father's duplicity and to free his childhood friend from the lies on which his happy home life is based.
Henrik Ibsen's play The Wild Duck, considered a masterpiece of modern tragicomedy, was premiered in January 1885 at Den Nationale Scene, Bergen, Norway.
This English translation by Stephen Mulrine is published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, with a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Condition
Used, Very Good
Series
Drama Classics
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781854596543
SKU
KMK0000949
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Henrik Ibsen
Born in Norway in 1828, Ibsen began his writing career with romantic history plays influenced by Shakespeare and Schiller. In 1851 he was appointed writer-in-residence at the newly established Norwegian Theatre in Bergen with a contract to write a play a year for five years, following which he was made Artistic Director of the Norwegian Theatre in what is now ... Read more
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