The Lady from the Sea: A Quick Read edition

The Lady from the Sea: A Quick Read edition

by Quick Read and Henrik Ibsen
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 16/02/2024

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- Reading time of the complete text: about 2 hours

- Reading time of the summarized text: 3 minutes


"The Lady from the Sea" is a play written by Henrik Ibsen in 1888, inspired by the ballad Agnete og Havmanden. The play revolves around Ellida Wangel, a woman who is married to a physician in a small fjord town in northern Norway. Ellida is restless and troubled by a former romantic attachment, and her husband invites Arnholm, Bolette's former tutor and a former suitor to Ellida, to help her. Ellida was deeply in love and engaged to a sailor, but he had to escape after murdering his captain. The sailor returns years later to claim her, and Ellida has to choose between her former lover or her husband. The play ends with the sailor leaving and Ellida and her husband deciding to take up their lives again together. The play has been performed in various theaters around the world, and there have been several adaptations, including a ballet, an opera, and a radio adaptation.

ISBN:
9782385820831
9782385820831
Category:
Anthologies (non-poetry)
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
16-02-2024
Language:
English
Publisher:
​QuickRead
Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) is often called 'the Father of Modern Drama'. Born in Norway, he left his homeland in 1864 for a 21-year long voluntary exile in Italy and Germany. After successes with the verse dramas Brand and Peer Gynt, he turned to prose, writing his great 12-play cycle of society dramas between 1877 and 1899. This included A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builderand, finally, When We Dead Awaken.

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