The Master Builder

Continental European Drama & Plays

Author: Henrik Ibsen

The four plays in this volume, written late in Ibsen’s career as a dramatist, move away from his earlier preoccupation with people at odds with society to instead explore the inward struggle with their own thoughts, feelings and dreams. “The Master Builder” (1892) depicts a powerful man whose illusions collapse in the face of a young woman’s courageous common sense. In “Ro….Read More

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