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Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) was a Norwegian playwright who thrived during the late nineteenth century. He began his professional career at age 15 as a pharmacist’s apprentice. He would spend his free time writing plays, publishing his first work Catilina in 1850, followed by The Burial Mound that same year. He eventually earned a position as a theatre director and began producing his own material. Ibsen’s prolific catalogue is noted for depicting modern and real topics. His major titles include Brand, Peer Gynt and Hedda Gabler.
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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
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‘The Lady from the Sea’
Henrik Ibsen: Parts Edition (in 29 parts)
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Henrik Ibsen: Parts Edition
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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 —