num_pages: 320
description: 
  The plays in this volume range from the once shockingly realistic Ghosts (1881), 'the play that launched a thousand ships of critical fury'; through The Wild Duck (1884) with its innovatory symbolism and its touching portrait of a fourteen-year-old girl held in thrall by her feckless father ('Where,' asked George Bernard Shaw, 'shall I find an epithet magnificent enough for The Wild Duck?'); to The Master Builder (1892), showing the semi-autobiographical relationship between an ageing genius and a dynamic young woman.
  Michael Meyer's translations are 'crisp and cobweb-free, purged of verbal Victoriana' (Kenneth Tynan)

language: English
title: Plays 1: Ghosts / The Wild Duck / The Master Builder
titlecomplete: Plays 1: Ghosts / The Wild Duck / The Master Builder
genres: Classics, Drama
ratings_count: 73
publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama