Hebbel, the son of a poor Holstein labourer, became one of the major German tragedians of the nineteenth century. This Everyman volume gives three of his plays in English: the legend of Gyges and the invisible ring, the jealous passion of King Herod for his wife Mariamne, and the bourgeois tragedy of a cabinet-maker’s daughter.
Powerful, psychologically searching drama, an essential bridge between Schiller and Ibsen. Download the free EPUB.