Name: Emperor and Galilean par Henrik Ibsen
SKU: 9781848421929
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Emperor and Galilean Henrik Ibsen

A thrilling version of Ibsen's epic play, charting the true odyssey of an astonishing man as he struggles to find spiritual fulfilment and political pre-eminence.

Made Emperor in Rome, Julian attempts to abolish Christianity and restore the old gods. But met with fierce resistance, this great free-thinker becomes a tyrant more hated than his brutal predecessor, Constantius. And in arousing the Christians from their apathy he advances their cause, his life and death altering the course of history in stark opposition to his intent.

Ibsen's little-known masterpiece sweeps across Greece and the Middle East from AD351, covering twelve crucial years in the history of civilisation. Completed and published in 1873, Emperor and Galilean was premiered in Leipzig in 1896.

This newly created version by Ben Power was first staged at the National Theatre, London, in June 2011, marking the first time thatEmperor and Galilean had been performed on the stage in English. The production was directed by Jonathan Kent, with Andrew Scott as the Emperor Julian, and Ian McDiarmid as Maximus.

Emperor and Galilean Avis

'Skilfully edited three-and-a-half-hour version... I would urge anyone interested in Ibsen or the development of drama to see it'

* Guardian *

'Power's new and thankfully shortened version is a memorable event'

* Sunday Times *

'Surely no one could be unimpressed by Ben Power's pacey adaptation'

* Official London Theatre *

À propos de Henrik Ibsen

Born in Norway in 1828, Ibsen began his writing career with romantic history plays influenced by Shakespeare and Schiller. In 1851 he was appointed writer-in-residence at the newly established Norwegian Theatre in Bergen with a contract to write a play a year for five years, following which he was made Artistic Director of the Norwegian Theatre in what is now Oslo. In the 1860s he moved abroad to concentrate wholly on writing. He began with two mighty verse dramas, Brand and Peer Gynt, and in the 1870s and 1880s wrote the sequence of realistic problem plays for which he is best known, among them A Dolls House, Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, Hedda Gabler and Rosmersholm. His last four plays, The Master Builder, Little Eyolf, John Gabriel Borkman and When We Dead Awaken, dating from his return to Norway in the 1890s, are increasingly overlaid with symbolism. Illness forced him to retire in 1900, and he died in 1906 after a series of crippling strokes.

Informations supplémentaires

Sku

GOR010750599

ISBN 13

9781848421929

ISBN 10

1848421923

Titre

Emperor and Galilean Henrik Ibsen

Auteur

Henrik Ibsen

Série

NHB Classic Plays

État

Occasion - Comme neuf

Relié

Broché

Éditeur

Nick Hern Books

Année de publication

2011-07-16

Nombre de pages

160

Prix

N/A

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