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The Master Builder
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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The Master Builder
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Henrik Ibsen
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By (author) David Hare
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:128 | Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 128 |
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Category/Genre | Plays, playscripts |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780571330812
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Classifications | Dewey:839.8226 |
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Edition |
Main
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Faber & Faber
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Imprint |
Faber & Faber
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Publication Date |
4 February 2016 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
The change will come. And it's not far away, I promise you that. Some figure will emerge from the dark screaming 'Get out of the way'. And not far behind others will follow... The young are waiting. In all their power. Knocking on the door. The master builder Halvard Solness has a fear of falling. A self-made man, without professional qualifications, he has achieved domination in the town but he's increasingly frightened of being displaced by the young. A woman, Hilde Wangel, appears from the mountains, claiming to have known Solness ten years previously, and telling him of a promise he made to her when she was thirteen. David Hare has written a new adaptation of one of Henrik Ibsen's most complex autobiographical masterpieces - a mesmeric exploration of control, power, lust and death, which builds to a vertiginous climax. The Master Builder premiered in this English version at The Old Vic, London, in January 2016.
Author Biography
Henrik Johan Ibsen (1828-1906) was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. Sir David Hare is an English playwright, screenwriter and theatre and film director.
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