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Two historical dramas drawn from medieval family sagas and royal chronicles explore honor, love, and political ambition. The first evokes a heroic, saga-like world in which personal pride, disputed loyalties, and passionate relationships escalate into revenge and tragedy among closely linked clans. The second focuses on competing claimants to authority, tracing how contested legitimacy, manipulative alliances, and moral compromise shape individual fates and public order. Both plays favor terse, saga-influenced dialogue and dramatic action over lyrical embellishment, examining how ancient codes of honor and the pursuit of power produce irreversible consequences.

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Title: The collected works of Henrik Ibsen, Vol. 02 (of 11)

Author: Henrik Ibsen

Editor: William Archer

Release date: August 31, 2021 [eBook #66186]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United Kingdom: William Heinemann, 1907

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THE COLLECTED WORKS OF
HENRIK IBSEN
VOLUME II
THE VIKINGS AT HELGELAND
THE PRETENDERS

THE COLLECTED WORKS OF
HENRIK IBSEN
Copyright Edition.       Complete in 11 Volumes.
Crown 8vo, price 4s. each.
ENTIRELY REVISED AND EDITED BY
WILLIAM ARCHER
Vol. I. Lady Inger, The Feast at Solhoug, Love’s Comedy
Vol. II. The Vikings, The Pretenders
Vol. III. Brand
Vol. IV. Peer Gynt
Vol. V. Emperor and Galilean (2 parts)
Vol. VI. The League of Youth, Pillars of Society
Vol. VII. A Doll’s House, Ghosts
Vol. VIII. An Enemy of the People, The Wild Duck
Vol. IX. Rosmersholm, The Lady from the Sea
Vol. X. Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder
Vol. XI. Little Eyolf, John Gabriel Borkman, When We Dead Awaken
London: WILLIAM HEINEMANN
21 Bedford Street, W.C.

THE COLLECTED WORKS OF
HENRIK IBSEN

Copyright Edition

VOLUME II
THE VIKINGS AT
HELGELAND
THE PRETENDERS
WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY
WILLIAM ARCHER

LONDON
WILLIAM HEINEMANN
1910
Collected Edition, First printed 1906
Second Impression 1910

Copyright 1906 by William Heinemann