The wild duck
By: Henrik Ibsen ; a version by David Eldridge from a literal translation by Charlotte Barslund
Contributors: Barslund, Charlotte; Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 113
Description: Gregers Werle, the son of a wealthy businessman, is an uncompromising idealist, and invites himself into the house of Hjalmar Ekdal, his childhood friend. His intention is to free the Ekdal family from the mesh of lies on which their contented lives are based: Gregers can see delusion, fantasy, and deep-seated deception surrounding Hjalmar, his father, his wife Gina, and his daughter Hedvig. But Gregers drowns the family even as he is trying to raise them up, his well-meaning investigations shredding the lies they have told themselves in order to live.