Description: A Student Edition featuring the text of the play together with a full commentary, notes and questions for further study on this powerful psychological drama.
Brief description: Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) has been described as 'the father of modern theatre'. Most of his early plays were traditional historical dramas. After 'Peer Gynt', a fairy-tale fantasy in verse, Ibsen wrote the rest of his plays in prose, and came to be regarded as the great Naturalist dramatist.
Review Quotes:
"Ghosts is a forboding litany of sins past which unravel to lay bare a series of creeping consequences that damn everyone involved, unwittingly or not." --Neil Cooper, Herald, 18.5.09
"Ibsen has the extraordinary capacity for building up tension like the force of water gathering behind a fracturing dyke. When the walls finally break, the ensuing flood is irresistible." --Mark Brown, Sunday Herald, 24.5.09 "Ibsen's most notable foray into the nature/nurture debate" --Steve Cramer, Financial Times, 26.5.09 "When Ibsen's 1881 drama was first staged, the play didn't just tread on one taboo, it bravely waded through a messy bog of them." --Maxie Szalwinska, Sunday Times, 2.8.09