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The Quintessence of Ibsenism. Now Completed to the Death of Ibsen
London, Archibald Constable, 1913. First thus: Shaw's 1891 essay on Ibsen with a new preface for this edition and an additional section incorporating the plays Ibsen wrote after 1891 and before his stroke in 1900. Shaw's original essay was his first important connection to the theater, and his commentary on the social realism of Ibsen's plays, versus the stagnant formalism of most Victorian theater, is a landmark of dramatic theory. Small "first edition" stamp on pastedown; very near fine in a very good, spine and edge-darkened dust jacket with only small corner chips. Scarce in jacket. [#020494] SOLD

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