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    The Lady from the Sea by Henrik Ibsen - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
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    Release dateJul 17, 2017
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    The Lady from the Sea 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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      The Lady from the Sea by Henrik Ibsen - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) - Henrik Ibsen

      The Complete Works of

      HENRIK IBSEN

      VOLUME 19 OF 29

      The Lady from the Sea

      Parts Edition

      By Delphi Classics, 2013

      Version 1

      COPYRIGHT

      ‘The Lady from the Sea’

      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 589 2

      Delphi Classics

      is an imprint of

      Delphi Publishing Ltd

      Hastings, East Sussex

      United Kingdom

      Contact: sales@delphiclassics.com

      www.delphiclassics.com

      Henrik Ibsen: Parts Edition

      This eBook is Part 19 of the Delphi Classics edition of Henrik Ibsen in 29 Parts. It features the unabridged text of The Lady from the Sea 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.

      Learn more about our Parts Edition, with free downloads, via this link or browse our most popular Parts here.

      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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      The Lady from the Sea

      Translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling

      This play was written in Munich in 1888, with the earliest draft dated June 5, 1888, but as usual Ibsen had been considering the subject for some time. A number of elements in the drama derive from his stay in Molde in the summer of 1885. It is assumed that Ibsen used Molde as his model for the little town by a fjord, in the northern part of Norway, where the action takes place.  The playwright also heard two legends there that made an impression on him and which he used in the play. One of them told of a Norwegian of Finnish stock whose magically compelling eyes lured a parson’s wife away from her husband and home; whilst the other tale told of a seaman who had been away from home so long that he was thought to be dead, until he suddenly appeared and found his wife married to another man.

      The sea was intended to be the central motif of the play right from the beginning. In 1887 Ibsen was in North Jutland, Denmark, where he spent six weeks from mid-July until the end of August in Sæby, on the east coast of the peninsula. It was there that he collected material and found inspiration for this play, while enjoying being near the open sea. He wrote at the time, The lure of the sea. Longing for the sea. People’s affinity to the sea. Tied to the sea. Dependent on the sea. Compulsion to return to it. A species of fish forming a prototype in the development of species. Are there still rudiments of this in the human mind? In the mind of some individuals?

      The Lady from the Sea was released in book format on November 28, 1888 at Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag in Copenhagen and Christiania in an edition of 10,000 copies. On December 27th 1887 Ibsen’s friend and publisher for 22 years, Frederik Hegel, had died. His son Jacob Hegel was ready to take over and so was the publisher of The Lady from the Sea. The book received a mixed reception. In general the reviewers were more positive than in the case of Rosmersholm, most likely due to the play’s optimistic ending.

      The drama was first performed on February 12, 1889 in both Hoftheater in Weimar and at Christiania Theatre. The latter production was directed by Bjørn Bjørnson, and the parts of Dr. Wangel and Ellida were played by Sigvard and Laura Gundersen. According to a congratulatory telegram received by Ibsen, this production was received with very great acclaim and it had 26 performances in less than two years.

      It is a symbolic work, centred upon Ellida, the daughter of a lighthouse-keeper, who was raised in a blissful childhood, where the fjord meets the open sea. She is married to Doctor Wangel, a doctor in a small town in West Norway, who has two daughters, Bolette and Hilde, by his previous wife. Heand Ellida had a son who died as a baby, causing strains on the marriage. Fearing for Ellida’s mental health, Wangel has invited Arnholm, Bolette’s former tutor and now the headmaster of a school, in the hope that he can help Ellida.

      Molde, Norway — the town that inspired the setting of ‘The Lady from the Sea’

      CONTENTS

      DRAMATIS PERSONAE

      ACT I

      ACT II

      ACT III

      ACT IV

      ACT V

      The first edition

      DRAMATIS PERSONAE

      Doctor Wangel.

      Ellida Wangel, his second wife.

      Bolette,

      Hilde (not yet grown up), his daughters by his first wife.

      Arnholm (second master at a college).

      Lyngstrand.

      Ballested.

      A Stranger.

      Young People of the Town.

      Tourists.

      Visitors.

      (The action takes place in small fjord town, Northern Norway.)

      ACT I

      (SCENE. — DOCTOR WANGEL’S house, with a large verandah garden in front of and around the house. Under the verandah a flagstaff. In the garden an arbour, with table and chairs. Hedge, with small gate at the back. Beyond, a road along the seashore. An avenue of trees along the road. Between the trees are seen the fjord, high mountain ranges and peaks. A warm and brilliantly clear summer morning.

      BALLESTED, middle-aged, wearing an old velvet jacket, and a broad-brimmed artist’s hat, stands under the flagstaff, arranging the ropes. The flag is lying on the ground. A little way from him is an easel, with an outspread canvas. By the easel on a camp-stool, brushes, a palette, and box of colours.

      BOLETTE WANGEL comes from the room opening on the verandah. She carries a large vase with flowers, which she puts down on the table.)

      Bolette. Well, Ballested, does it work smoothly?

      Ballested. Certainly, Miss Bolette, that’s easy enough. May I ask — do you expect any visitors today?

      Bolette. Yes, we’re expecting Mr. Arnholm this morning. He got to town in the night.

      Ballested. Arnholm? Wait a minute — wasn’t Arnholm the man who was tutor here several years ago?

      Bolette. Yes, it is he.

      Ballested. Oh, really! Is he coming into these parts again?

      Bolette. That’s why we want to have the flag up.

      Ballested. Well, that’s reasonable enough.

      (BOLETTE goes into the room again. A little after LYNGSTRAND enters from the road and stands still, interested by the easel and painting gear. He is a slender youth, poorly but carefully dressed, and looks delicate.)

      Lyngstrand (on the other side of the hedge). Good-morning.

      Ballested (turning round). Hallo! Good-morning. (Hoists up flag). That’s it! Up goes the balloon. (Fastens the ropes, and then busies himself about the easel.) Good-morning, my dear sir. I really don’t think I’ve the pleasure of —

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