Publisher: Oxford University Press, London
Date Published: 1960
Description: English textHardback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in fair all round condition, suitable as a study copy.., 350grams, ISBN: read more
Description: Softback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in fair all round condition suitable as a study copy. Ships within 24 hours. An adaptation for the American Stage by Arthur Miller., 150grams, ISBN: read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Rupert Hart Davis
Date Published: 1963
Description: Hardback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in good all round condition. Ships within 24 hours. No Dust Jacket, 250grams, ISBN: read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Rupert Hart Davis
Date Published: 1963
Description: Hardback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in good all round condition. Ships within 24 hours. No Dust Jacket, 250grams, ISBN: read more
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 8.32 by 5 inches. [allow 1-2 weeks transit to europe]. (00096 pages) lang=english accessory: no accessory (Paperback) read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Dover Publications
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780486406572ISBN:0486406571
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Text in English, Norwegian. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 96 p. Dover Thrift Editions. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: Acting ed. of playscript
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Highlighting/underlining. Actor's (Aslaksen) and sound designer's playscript, so, heavily marked, underlined, &c. 80 p. Includes illustrations. Playscript read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Dover Publications
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780486406572ISBN:0486406571
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Text in English, Norwegian. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 96 p. Dover Thrift Editions. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: METHUEN
Date Published: 1974
ISBN-13:9780413294708ISBN:0413294706
Description: Ex-Library Published by Methuen in 1974. Binding: Paperback. Number of pages: 128. Ex. Library copy-usual stamps and marks. Condition: Acceptable. Reading copy ONLY. #8508521 Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Dover Publications
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780486406572ISBN:0486406571
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Text in English, Norwegian. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 96 p. Dover Thrift Editions. Audience: General/trade. d1 read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Dover Publications
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780486406572ISBN:0486406571
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. 2 volume set. Text in Norwegian, English. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 96 p. Dover Thrift Editions. Audience: General/trade. read more
"In "Enemy of the People," a doctor worries that the local tourist attraction, a mecca of warm baths, is polluted. When authorities keep covering up a cholera epidemic, the doctor writes a letter to the editor and the paper refuses to publish it. The rest of the play is about how he keeps standing up to authorities and ranting about "the tyranny of the majority," arguing that the overwhelming majority of people is dumb and suppresses the ideas of the intelligentsia. Although he expects his neighbors to champion his courage, instead they turn on him and make him "an enemy of the people."
This play is not as good as Hedda Gabler, Doll's House or Ghosts. It seems contrived. You have to suspend your common sense to believe, for example, that no one but the doctor notices the epidemic, and that no one worries about getting it themselves. However, Ibsen is raising questions relevant to our times about how governments work to suppress the voices of dissent. In that way it's a worthy effort that makes you think."
"Ibsen's An Enemy of the People is more an idea than anything else. The play was the author's response to the public outcry that his previous work, Ghosts was met with. Ibsen was deeply pained and penned down this particular play that stressed on how the majority is more often than not, always wrong. The exchanges are interesting, but it's obvious that the author was writing it to make a point . I didn't enjoy it all that much as a play. It starts off well and then just meanders a lot. In Ibsen's two plays that I've read, the narrative is too obviously constructed to propogate an idea. I didn't like that."
"I'm at once reminded of my college studies in epidemiology, where John Snow discovered the source of cholera being contaminated waters. I wanted to scream at the people to listen to the doctor. He knows what he's talking about.
And how true it is that just because the masses agree on something, doesn't make it right.............there are definitely more idiots in this world than intelligent people. Or maybe there are a few more intelligent people, but they choose to act like idiots for reasons of their own devise - greed, popularity, guilt......The right decisions and popular choices are not always one and the same and it absolutely takes a strong man or woman to stand by the right choice, because there are times when they will be standing alone.
I started out giving this 3 stars, wanting to give it 3.5, but now after railing against the idiots I'm giving it a 4! Take that......you know who I'm talking about!"
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