Reviews - Four Great Plays: Ghosts / The Wild Duck / An Enemy of the People / A Doll's House

111 reviews for:

Four Great Plays: Ghosts / The Wild Duck / An Enemy of the People / A Doll's House

Henrik Ibsen, John Gassner, Robert Farquharson Sharp

3.86 AVERAGE

111 reviews for:

Four Great Plays: Ghosts / The Wild Duck / An Enemy of the People / A Doll's House

Henrik Ibsen, John Gassner, Robert Farquharson Sharp

3.86 AVERAGE

bel69's review against another edition

4.75

dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

the_anonymous_author's review

2.5

challenging slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

A collection of plays that will certainly make you stop and reconsider what you are reading. Varying from insightful to bizarre and then to petty and then to bizarre again. If old plays are of interest to you it is a decent read though you do need to accept the time period it is written for and the lack of descriptions as it is a script. Over all something an English teacher would love.

jammasterjamie's review against another edition

5.0

The only one of these that I'd read before was Hedda Gabler and it was just as captivating as I'd remembered. Every play in this collection is a killer, so compellingly written that you don't need to see a live production in order to feel the full impact of the drama. The alternate "German Ending" to A Doll's House was a travesty that completely neutered the entire story, but I'm glad that it was included here as a time-capsule to how much some prudish values have changed over the intervening decades.