The Oxford Ibsen is to date the most authorized, English translation of the playwright Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of prose drama" and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre...

's collected works. It is an important edition as the releases of Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of prose drama" and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre...

's plays usually are translated into third languages through The Oxford Ibsen, and rather seldom from the original Norwegian

Norway

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 or Scandinavian basic texts.

In advantage the translations could have been far better, but it is probably the best - and certainly the most complete - which exists in any foreign languages. Here are also some drafts and preparations, and each and every drama has got an instructive foreword that also informs about first performances on stage, interpretation and reception. The Oxford issue is still missing the articles, reviews, speeches, correspondence and the poetry of Henrik Ibsen.

Publications

• The Oxford Ibsen Volume I. Early Plays. Edited and translated by James Walter McFarlane and Graham Orton. Oxford University Press
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  . London
  London
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   1970.
• The Oxford Ibsen Volume II. The Vikings at Helgeland
  The Vikings at Helgeland
  The Vikings at Helgeland is Henrik Ibsen's seventh play.The Vikings at Helgeland was written during 1857 and first performed at Christiania Norske Theater in Oslo on 24 November 1858. The scenes take place during the time of Erik Blood-axe in the north of Norway in historic Helgeland...
  
  . Love's Comedy
  Love's Comedy
  Love's Comedy is a comedy by Henrik Ibsen. It was first published on 31 December 1862. As a result of being branded an "immoral" work in the press, the Christiania Theatre would not dare to stage it at first...
  
  . The Pretenders
  The Pretenders (play)
  The Pretenders is a dramatic play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.-Play overview:The Pretenders was written in bursts during 1863, but Ibsen claims to have had sources and the idea back in 1858. A five-act play in prose set in the thirteenth-century. The play opened at the old Christiania...
  
  . Edited by James Walter McFarlane with translations by Jens Arup, James Walter McFarlane, Evelyn Ramsden and Glynne Wickham. Oxford University Press. London 1962.
• The Oxford Ibsen Volume III. Brand
  Brand (play)
  Brand is a play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It is a verse tragedy, written in 1865 and first performed in Stockholm on 24 March 1867. Brand was an intellectual play that provoked much original thought....
  
  . Peer Gynt
  Peer Gynt
  Peer Gynt is a five-act play in verse by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen, loosely based on the fairy tale Per Gynt. It is the most widely performed Norwegian play. According to Klaus Van Den Berg, the "cinematic script blends poetry with social satire and realistic scenes with surreal ones"...
  
  . Edited by James Walter McFarlane with translations by James Kirkup and Christopher Fry under assistance by James Walter McFarlane and Johan Fillinger. Oxford University Press. London 1972.
• The Oxford Ibsen Volume IV. The League of Youth
  The League of Youth
  The League of Youth is a play by Henrik Ibsen finished in early May 1869. It was Ibsen's first play in colloquial prose and marks a turning point in his style towards realism and away from verse. It was widely considered Ibsen's most popular play in nineteenth-century Norway...
  
  . Emperor and Galilean
  Emperor and Galilean
  Emperor and Galilean is a play written by Henrik Ibsen. Although it is one of the writer’s lesser known plays, on several occasions Henrik Ibsen called Emperor and Galilean his major work...
  
  . Edited and translated by James Walter McFarlane and Graham Orton. Oxford University Press. London 1963.
• The Oxford Ibsen Volume V. Pillars of Society. A Doll’s House. Ghosts. Edited and translated by James Walter McFarlane. Oxford University Press. London 1961.
• The Oxford Ibsen Volume VI. An Enemy of the People
  An Enemy of the People
  An Enemy of the People is an 1882 play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. Ibsen wrote it in response to the public outcry against his play Ghosts, which at that time was considered scandalous...
  
  . The Wild Duck
  The Wild Duck
  The Wild Duck is an 1884 play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.-Plot:The first act opens with a dinner party hosted by Håkon Werle, a wealthy merchant and industrialist. The gathering is attended by his son, Gregers Werle, who has just returned to his father's home following a self-imposed...
  
  . Rosmersholm
  Rosmersholm
  Rosmersholm is a play written in 1886 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. In the estimation of many critics the piece is Ibsen's masterwork, only equalled by The Wild Duck of 1884...
  
  . Edited and translated by James Walter McFarlane. Oxford University Press. London 1960.
• The Oxford Ibsen Volume VII. The Lady From the Sea
  The Lady from the Sea
  The Lady from the Sea is a play written in 1888 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.Kvinnan från havet is a ballet by choreographer Birgit Cullberg, and based on Ibsen's play...
  
  . Hedda Gabler
  Hedda Gabler
  Hedda Gabler is a play first published in 1890 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. The play premiered in 1891 in Germany to negative reviews, but has subsequently gained recognition as a classic of realism, nineteenth century theatre, and world drama...
  
  . The Master Builder
  The Master Builder
  The Master Builder is a play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It was first published in December 1892 and is regarded as one of Ibsen's most significant and revealing works.-Performance:...
  
  . Edited by James Walter McFarlane with translations by Jens Arup and James Walter McFarlane. Oxford University Press. London 1966.
• The Oxford Ibsen Volume VIII. Little Eyolf
  Little Eyolf
  Little Eyolf is an 1894 play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. The play was first performed on January 12, 1895 in the Deutsches Theater in Berlin.-Plot:...
  
  . John Gabriel Borkman
  John Gabriel Borkman
  John Gabriel Borkman is the penultimate composition of the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, written in 1896.-Plot:The Borkman family fortunes have been brought low by the imprisonment of John Gabriel who used his position as a bank manager to illegally speculate with his investors' money...
  
  . When We Dead Awaken
  When We Dead Awaken
  When We Dead Awaken is the last play written by Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen. Published in December 1899, Ibsen wrote the play between February and November of that year. The first performance was at the Haymarket Theatre in London, a day or two before publication.-Plot summary:The first act...
  
  . Edited and translated by James Walter McFarlane. Oxford University Press. London 1977.