Henrik Ibsen 
Ibsen Plays: 1 
Ghosts; the Wild Duck; the Master Builder

The plays in this volume range from the once shockingly realistic Ghosts (1881), »the play that launched a thousand ships of critical fury»; through The Wild Duck (1884) with its innovatory symbolism and its touching portrait of a fourteen-year-old girl held in thrall by her feckless father (»Where, » asked George Bernard Shaw, »shall I find an epithet magnificent enough for The Wild Duck?»); to The Master Builder (1892), showing the semi-autobiographical relationship between an ageing genius and a dynamic young woman.



Michael Meyer»s translations are »crisp and cobweb-free, purged of verbal Victoriana» (Kenneth Tynan)