Pillars of Society - format ePub

A door slams, and the echoes never fade. Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House (1879) is a play that doesn't shout—it lingers, unsettling and undeniable. Beneath the surface of a seemingly ordinary household...

Bolette. Well, Ballested, does it work smoothly? Ballested. Certainly, Miss Bolette, that's easy enough. May I ask-do you expect any visitors today? Bolette. Yes, we're expecting Mr. Arnholm this morning....

From Munich, on June 29, 1890, Ibsen wrote to the Swedish poet, Count Carl Soilsky: "Our intention has all along been to spend the summer in the Tyrol again. But circumstances are against our doing so....

Little Eyolf was written in Christiania during 1894, and published in Copenhagen on December 11 in that year. By this time Ibsen's correspondence has become so scanty as to afford us no clue to what may...

Ein packender PsychoThriller mit schockierendem Ende.

Un'ampia scelta di lettere che fornisce un ritratto inedito della personalità del grande e discusso drammaturgo, permettendo di valutarne l'impegno morale, ma anche l'inevitabile distanza tra gli ideali...

With The Master Builder-or Master Builder Solness, as the title runs in the original-we enter upon the final stage in Ibsen's career. "You are essentially right," the poet wrote to Count Prozor in March...

Hovstad. Don't you think the Doctor hits them pretty hard? Billing. Hard? Bless my soul, he's crushing! Every word falls like-how shall I put it?-like the blow of a sledgehammer. Hovstad. Yes, but they...

Henrik Ibsen: Die Wildente. Schauspiel in fünf Akten Vildanden. Erstdruck: Kopenhagen, 1884. Textgrundlage: Sämtliche Werke in deutscher Sprache. Durchgesehen und eingeleitet von Georg Brandes, Julius...

"He wrote When We Dead Awaken," says Dr. Elias, "with such labour and such passionate agitation, so spasmodically and so feverishly, that those around him were almost alarmed. He must get on with it,...

A Doll's House Hedda Gabler Ghosts An Enemy of the People The Lady from the Sea The Master Builder When We Dead Awaken "They sat there, the two, in so cosy a house, through autumn and winter days....

Bernick: We cannot work that way now-a-days. You must not imagine, Aune, that it is for the sake of making profit; I do not need that, fortunately; but I owe consideration to the community I live in,...

Master Builder Halvard Solness is an ageing architect who has not achieved what he wanted, neither in art nor in love. He fears and bullies his juniors, and thinks he is going mad. His wife and mistress...

One of the best-known, most frequently performed of modern plays, A Doll's House richly displays the genius with which Henrik Ibsen pioneered modern, realistic prose drama. In the central character of...

"One of the best-known, most frequently performed of modern plays, A Doll's House richly displays the genius with which Henrik Ibsen pioneered modern, realistic prose drama. In the central character of...

Dans une mise en scène de Jean-François Sivadier : du 7 au 15 mars à la MC2 Grenoble, du 10 mai au 15 juin au théâtre de l'Odéon (Paris). Les frères Tomas et Peter Stockmann se ressemblent comme le jour...

Une maison de poupée met en scène la révolte d’une femme qui prend soudain conscience d’avoir été toute sa vie soumise aux hommes de son entourage. Avec cette pièce créée en 1879, Henrik Ibsen fit un...

Henrik Ibsen, l'un des dramaturges les plus importants du 19e siècle, aborde ici le thème de la passion amoureuse et nous rappelle que le mariage par amour est une pratique récente qui fait opposition...

Gregers Werle, homme idéaliste, revient dans sa ville natale après un long exil, et se trouve mêlé aux affaires d’une étrange famille, causant des résultats désastreux. Les secrets qui se cachent derrière...

Après l'incendie de sa maison et la mort de ses enfants, le constructeur Solness va-t-il être capable de revivre grâce à la jeunesse qui frappe à sa porte, comme un rêve? ... 4 hommes, 3 femmes / durée...

Rosmer, ancien pasteur, est éprouvé par le suicide de sa femme. Son beau-frère lui fait rencontrer Rebekka, dont Rosmer tombe amoureux. Il découvre pourtant qu'elle est à l'origine de ce décès tragique...

Une maison de poupée (Et Dukkehjem) est une pièce de théâtre du dramaturge norvégien Henrik Ibsen, créée en 1879. Elle est inscrite au registre international Mémoire du monde de l'UNESCO. Présentation...

Une nouvelle traduction qui met en valeur l'écriture d'Ibsen dans sa plus célèbre pièce, où Nora, femme mariée, se retrouve acculée à quitter son mari et son foyer. Fuite ou acte enfin libératoire ? Personnages...

Mariage d’Amour ou Mariage arrangé ?Voilà la question centrale de cette magnifique pièce de théâtre de Henrik Ibsen, auteur norvégien. Il est l’un des plus grands dramaturges du XIX e siècle. Cependant,...

Dans une société polie ou? règnent l’ordre et la morale religieuse, les secrets d’une famille, en apparence bien sous tous rapports, e?clatent et re?ve?lent la cause des non-dits et des absences.3 hommes,...

Hedda Gabler est une des cinq dernières pièces d'Ibsen. Écrite à Munich en 1890, peu de temps avant le retour définitif de l'auteur en Norvège, elle fut aussitôt traduite et publiée en plusieurs langues...

Nora mène une vie en apparence idyllique avec son mari Torvald et leurs enfants. Mais derrière cette façade se cache un mariage étouffant où elle étouffe. Traitée comme une poupée fragile par son époux,...

En Norvège, dans 'une maison confortable et de bon goût', une famille se prépare à fêter Noël. Mais le douillet et rassurant cocon se fissure quand le secret de Nora, la jeune et joyeuse épouse, menace...

Dans ce chef-d’oeuvre intemporel, Henrik Ibsen raconte l’errance de Peer Gynt, rêveur en quête de gloire fuyant responsabilités et amours sincères. Entre fantastique et réalité, la pièce explore liberté,...

L'anitra selvatica è una delle opere più rappresentative di Henrik Ibsen, scritta nel 1884. La trama ruota attorno alla famiglia Ekdal e al loro strano rapporto con la verità e le illusioni. Ibsen utilizza...

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Wilde’s only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life and consequence....

The books that inspired the Netflix crime series. Here you will find the following original works: - Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Burglar - Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes - The Hollow Needle - 813 -...

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Mrs. Dalloway chronicles a June day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway–a day that is taken up with running minor errands in preparation for a party and that is punctuated, toward the end, by the suicide...

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Meg is the eldest and on the brink of love. Then there’s tomboy Jo who longs to be a writer. Sweet-natured Beth always puts others first, and finally there’s Amy, the youngest and most precocious. Together...

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Jonathan Harker, a young London solicitor travels to Transylvania to help a rich nobleman, Count Dracula, purchase an estate in England. Dracula is planning to immigrate to England, and wants Harker to...

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As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being...

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