Book at Lunchtime: A Doll's House, Men of Honour, When We Dead Awaken

Book at Lunchtime presents:

A Doll's House, Men of Honour, When We Dead Awaken

These three plays tell a fascinating and heartbreaking story, introduce a new playwright (Laura Kieler) to the world, and provide a fuller understanding of a work we thought we knew: Ibsen's A Doll's House. This new edition is complete with an insightful introduction, up-to-date reasearch, and indepth explanatory notes.

This new edition presents three plays which tell a fascinating and heartbreaking story, providing a fuller understanding to Henrik Isben's A Doll's House, and introduces the playwright Laura Kieler to the English-speaking world

This collection presents the very first English translation of Kieler's Men of Honour and is the first edition to publish these plays together.

Translated by Gaye Kynoch, Freelance literary translator, Edited by Kirsten E. Shepherd, University of Oxford, and Tzen Sam, University of Oxford

Gaye Kynoch has a background in the integrated academic, research and practical study of drama, performance and theatre arts. She has worked with a number of theatre companies and arts organisations, and is a freelance Danish-English literary translator of plays and novels, in addition to books and essays on topics related to history and the arts. Kynoch is also a founding member of the Danish Theatre Forum Europe.

Kirsten E. Shepherd is Professor of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford. Her area of interests are theatre and science, the plays of Ibsen, and the role of theatre and performance in the historiography of Modernism. Her books include Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett (2015) and Modern Drama: A Very Short Introduction (2016).

Tzen Sam is a doctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, focusing on Henrik Ibsen's first female English translators, the women who played an important but largely unacknowledged role in the transmission and reception of Ibsen's plays in late-Victorian England. Sam completed her undergraduate degree at Peterhouse, Cambridge and an MA at University College London before beginning her DPhil at Oxford.

Agenda

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Discussion 12.45-1.45pm

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