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    Catiline by Henrik Ibsen - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
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    Release dateJul 17, 2017
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    Catiline by Henrik Ibsen - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
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    Henrik Ibsen

    Born in 1828, Henrik Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright and poet, often associated with the early Modernist movement in theatre. Determined to become a playwright from a young age, Ibsen began writing while working as an apprentice pharmacist to help support his family. Though his early plays were largely unsuccessful, Ibsen was able to take employment at a theatre where he worked as a writer, director, and producer. Ibsen’s first success came with Brand and Peter Gynt, and with later plays like A Doll’s House, Ghosts, and The Master Builder he became one of the most performed playwrights in the world, second only to William Shakespeare. Ibsen died in his home in Norway in 1906 at the age of 78.

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      Catiline by Henrik Ibsen - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) - Henrik Ibsen

      The Complete Works of

      HENRIK IBSEN

      VOLUME 1 OF 29

      Catiline

      Parts Edition

      By Delphi Classics, 2013

      Version 1

      COPYRIGHT

      ‘Catiline’

      Henrik Ibsen: Parts Edition (in 29 parts)

      First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

      © Delphi Classics, 2017.

      All rights reserved.  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form other than that in which it is published.

      ISBN: 978 1 78877 571 7

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      Henrik Ibsen: Parts Edition

      This eBook is Part 1 of the Delphi Classics edition of Henrik Ibsen in 29 Parts. It features the unabridged text of Catiline from the bestselling edition of the author’s Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of Henrik Ibsen, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

      Visit here to buy the entire Parts Edition of Henrik Ibsen or the Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen in a single eBook.

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      HENRIK IBSEN

      IN 29 VOLUMES

      Parts Edition Contents

      The Plays

      1, Catiline

      2, The Burial Mound

      3, Lady Inger of Oestraat

      4, The Feast at Solhaug

      5, Olaf Liljekrans

      6, The Vikings at Helgeland

      7, Love’s Comedy

      8, The Pretenders

      9, Brand

      10, Peer Gynt

      11, The League of Youth

      12, Emperor and Galilean

      13, Pillars of Society

      14, A Doll’s House

      15, Ghosts

      16, An Enemy of the People

      17, The Wild Duck

      18, Rosmersholm

      19, The Lady from the Sea

      20, Hedda Gabler

      21, The Master Builder

      22, Little Eyolf

      23, John Gabriel Borkman

      24, When We Dead Awaken

      The Poems

      25, The Poetry

      The Norwegian Texts (De norske tekster)

      26, The Original Texts

      The Non-Fiction

      27, Speeches and New Letters

      The Criticism

      28, The Criticism

      The Biography

      29, The Life of Henrik Ibsen by Edmund Gosse

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      Catiline

      Translated by Anders Orbeck

      Henrik Ibsen was born into a well-to-do merchant family in the small port town of Skien, noted for shipping timber, in Telemark county, Norway, in 1828. Although at first he enjoyed a privileged childhood, his upbringing was heavily influenced by how his father became the victim of unfortunate financial transactions in the mid-1830s. In the course of one year, the merchant Knud Ibsen was obliged to close down his businesses, his properties were auctioned off and the family’s prosperity was abruptly reversed to poverty.

      Life in Skien was very sheltered, offering little satisfaction to the ambitious and forward thinking Ibsen.  Aged fifteen, he left his hometown for Grimstad to begin apothecary studies. In the course of his time in Grimstad he made his earliest attempts as a poet and in September 1849 had a poem published for the first time, In the Autumn.

      Ibsen’s first play, Catiline, was written over the first three months of 1849, when the young playwright was only twenty years old and currently working as an assistant to the chemist Lars Nielsen in Grimstad. Ibsen wrote most of the play at night time, in the precious few hours he had left free to him for study and composition, which explains why the majority of the drama is set in the evening.

      At the same time as working as a chemist’s apprentice, he was studying for the examination qualifying for university entrance. Therefore, he had private coaching in Latin, and among other works he read the Roman historian Sallust’s account of Catiline and Cicero’s famous Catiline speeches. These ancient texts were to inspire Ibsen’s first foray into play writing.

      After completing the play, Ibsen read Catiline to his two closest friends in Grimstad, Christopher Due and Ole Carelius Schulerud, who were very enthusiastic about his work. Due made a copy of the manuscript and Schulerud took it to the Christiania Theatre and also arranged publication in book format. Nevertheless, the board of the theatre rejected the play and every bookseller they took it to also declined the work. However, Schulerud did not give in until he had had his friend’s work published. With the aid of a sum of money he had inherited, he had Catiline published on commission by the bookseller P. F. Steensballe in Christiania. The play was published under the pseudonym Brynjolf Bjarme on April 12th 1850 in an edition of 250 copies. Reviews were mostly favourable, but sales were low.

      The play recounts the story of Lucius Sergius Catilina, a Roman politician of the 1st century B.C., who led a conspiracy to overthrow the Roman Republic and in particular the power of the Senate. Catiline has rarely been performed and over thirty years passed between the publication of the first edition and the first performance. When this took place - on December 3rd 1881 at Nya Teatern in Stockholm - it was not the text of the first edition, but that of the second that was used. Ludvig Oscar Josephson directed the production. The audience showed great interest in the production, but the reviews were mainly negative.

      Ole C. Schulerud and Christopher Due, Ibsen’s close friends that supported the publication of his first play

      CONTENTS

      PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

      DRAMATIS PERSONÆ

      FIRST ACT

      SECOND ACT

      THIRD ACT

      The first edition’s title page

      Cicero Denouncing Catiline (far right) by Cesare Maccari

      PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

      The drama Catiline, with which I entered upon my literary career, was written during the winter of 1848-49, that is in my twenty-first year.

      I was at the time in Grimstad, under the necessity of earning with my hands the wherewithal of life and the means for instruction preparatory to my taking the entrance examinations to the university. The age was one of great stress. The February revolution, the uprisings in Hungary and elsewhere, the Slesvig war, — all this had a great effect upon and

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