Written by Henrik Ibsen
A Doll's House
by Henrik IbsenA Doll's House written by Henrik Ibsen is one of the world’s most performed plays. The play is plotted around three key characters and five other subliminal characters. Torvald Helmer, a newly promoted bank manager believes his wife is childish and worthless. Nora Helmer is married to Torvald Helmer and the couples have three childre..
Hedda Gabler
by Henrik IbsenHedda Gabler is a play written by Henrik Ibsen, a Norwegian playwright and poet who is remembered for his realistic plays A Doll's House, Emperor and Galilean, and Peer Gynt to name a few. Hedda Gabler, a drama of realism has received many negative reviews for portraying the heroine as manipulative villain. Hedda Gabler, the daughter of an arist..
Ghosts
by Henrik IbsenGhosts, is a three act play written by Henrik Johan Ibsen, a Norwegian playwright remembered as “The Father of Realism”. Apart from his magnum opus A Doll's House, his popular works include Hedda Gabbler, An Enemy of the People, and The Master Builder. Ghosts explores the 19th century morality, scripted in three acts. Helen Alving, is married to..
An Enemy of the People
by Henrik Ibsen“An Enemy of the People”, is a play written by Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen, who is remembered for his masterpiece “Ghosts”. An Enemy of the People criticizes the corrupt political systems supported by the masses. Ibsen has commented himself this play addresses a serious issue on society, though there are comedy elements blended in the narratio..
The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen, Vol. 01
by Henrik IbsenThe eleven volumes of this edition contain all, save one, of the dramas which Henrik Ibsen himself admitted to the canon of his works. The one exception is his earliest, and very immature, tragedy, Catilina, first published in 1850, and republished in 1875. This play is interesting in the light reflected from the poet’s later achievements, but has ..
THE VIKINGS AT HELGELAND - The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen Vol. 02 (of 11)
by Henrik IbsenIbsen himself has told us, in his preface to the second edition of The Feast at Solhoug, how the reading of the Icelandic family-sagas suggested to him, in germ, the theme of The Vikings at Helgeland. What he first saw, he says, was the contrasted figures of the two women who ultimately became Hiördis and Dagny, together with a great banquet-scene ..
BRAND - The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen Vol. 03 (of 11)
by Henrik IbsenBrand was written in the summer of 1865, at Ariccia, near Rome. Fifteen months before, Ibsen had left Christiania, a voluntary exile, eager to escape from the narrow Scandinavian world, and burning with the sense of national disgrace. Denmark was in the throes of the heroic but hopeless struggle to which her northern kinsmen had sent only a handful..
EMPEROR AND GALILEAN - The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen Vol. 05 (of 11)
by Henrik IbsenIn a speech delivered at Copenhagen in 1898, Ibsen said: “It is now thirty-four years since I journeyed southward by way of Germany and Austria, and passed through the Alps on May 9. Over the mountains the clouds hung like a great dark curtain. We plunged in under it, steamed through the tunnel, and suddenly found ourselves at Miramare, where the b..