Peer Gynt A Dramatic Poem |
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| Author:
| Ibsen, Henrik
Fry, Christopher
Fillinger, Johann |
| Introduction by:
| McFarlane, James |
| Series title: | Oxford World's Classics Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-283746-2 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1999 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $9.95 |
Book Description:
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Ibsen's last work to use poetry as a medium of dramatic expression, Peer Gynt carries the marks of his later, prose plays. Its literary antecedents include Faust and Hans Christian Andersen, but the play draws on Ibsen's own childhood and character. He wrote that he derived many features of Peer Gynt from "self-dissection," creating a self-centered and irresponsible, but ultimately forgivable, rogue.
Ibsen's last work to use poetry as a medium of dramatic expression, Peer Gynt carries the marks of his later, prose plays. Its literary antecedents include Faust and Hans Christian Andersen, but the play draws on Ibsen's own childhood and character. He wrote that he derived many features of Peer Gynt from "self-dissection," creating a self-centered and irresponsible, but ultimately forgivable, rogue.