{"product_id":"the-master-builder-and-other-plays-isbn-9780141194592","title":"The Master Builder and Other Plays","description":"\u003cb\u003eHenrik Ibsen’s most important plays in superb modern translations, part of the new Penguin Ibsen series\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis new Penguin Classics series of Henrik Ibsen’s plays will offer the best available editions in English of the great works by “the father of modern drama,” all under the general editorship of Ibsen scholar Tore Rem. All plays included here are newly translated and based on the recently published, definitive Norwegian texts. \u003ci\u003eThe Master Builder and Other Plays \u003c\/i\u003ecollects his last four plays: \u003ci\u003eLittle Eyokf\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJohn Gabriel Borkman\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWhen We Dead Awaken\u003c\/i\u003e, in addition to the title play.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003cb\u003eHENRIK IBSEN \u003c\/b\u003e(1828–1906) grew up in Norway, but left in 1864 for a twenty-one-year voluntary exile in Italy and Germany. After successes with the verse dramas \u003ci\u003eBrand \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePeer Gynt\u003c\/i\u003e, he turned to prose, writing his great twelve-play cycle of society dramas between 1877 and 1899.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDEBORAH DAWKIN\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eERIK SKUGGEVIK\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eBARBARA J. HAVELAND\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eANNE-MARIE STANTON-IFE \u003c\/b\u003eare freelance literary translators.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTORIL MOI \u003c\/b\u003eis a professor of English, theater studies, and philosophy at Duke University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTORE REM \u003c\/b\u003e(general editor), former director of the board of the Centre for Ibsen Studies, is a professor of British literature at the University of Oslo and the author of Henry \u003ci\u003eGibson\/Henrik Ibsen\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300958589157,"sku":"NP9780141194592","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780141194592.jpg?v=1767740436","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-master-builder-and-other-plays-isbn-9780141194592","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}