Search -
Peer Gynt: A Dramatic Poem (The World's Classics)
Peer Gynt A Dramatic Poem - The World's Classics Author:Henrik Ibsen, Christopher Fry, Johan Fillinger Ibsen's last work to use poetry as a medium of dramatic expression, Peer Gynt carries the marks of his later, prose plays. Its literary antecedents include Faust and Hans Christian Andersen, but the play draws on Ibsen's own childhood and character. He wrote that he derived many features of Peer Gynt from "self-dissection," creating a self-cen... more »tered and irresponsible, but ultimately forgiveable, rogue.« less