. The collected works of Henrik Ibsen. CONTENTS PAGE Introduction to Hedda Gabler . . vii Introduction to The Master Builder . xxi Hedda Gabler 1 Translated by Edmund Gosse and William Archer The Master Builder 187 Translated by Edmund Gosse and William Archer HEDDA GABLER. INTRODUCTION* From Munich, on June 29, 1890, Ibsen wrote tothe Swedish poet, Count Carl Snoilsky: Ourintention has all along been to spend the sum-mer in the Tyrol again. But circumstances areagainst our doing so. I am at present engagedupon a new dramatic work, which for severalreasons has made very slow progress, and I do


. The collected works of Henrik Ibsen. CONTENTS PAGE Introduction to Hedda Gabler . . vii Introduction to The Master Builder . xxi Hedda Gabler 1 Translated by Edmund Gosse and William Archer The Master Builder 187 Translated by Edmund Gosse and William Archer HEDDA GABLER. INTRODUCTION* From Munich, on June 29, 1890, Ibsen wrote tothe Swedish poet, Count Carl Snoilsky: Ourintention has all along been to spend the sum-mer in the Tyrol again. But circumstances areagainst our doing so. I am at present engagedupon a new dramatic work, which for severalreasons has made very slow progress, and I donot leave Munich until I can take with me thecompleted first draft. There is little or no pros-pect of my being able to complete it in did not leave Munich at all that October 30 he wrote: At present I am ut-terly engrossed in a new play. Not one leisurehour have I had for several months. Threeweeks later (November 20) he wrote to hisFrench translator, Count Prozor: My new playis finished; the manuscript went


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