Four
Major
Plays
-
Henrik
Ibsen
The
first
play
in
this
volume
provoked
such
as
uproar
when
it
made
its
Scandinavian
debut
that
invitations
to
social
gatherings
would
carry
a
postscript:
'You
are
requested
not
to
mention
Ibsen's
Doll's
House'.
In
it,
and
in
his
next
play
Ghosts
Ibsen
brought
to
light
things
that
a
self-righteous,
hypocritical
society
would
have
preferred
to
leave
under
the
carpet:
his
heroines'
perceptions
about
society
and
their
positions
in
it
are
conveyed
with
a
clarity
that
is
still
shockingly
dramatic.
When,
some
years
later,
Ibsen
came
to
write
Hedda
Gabler
and
its
successor,
The
Master
Builder,
his
focus
had
shifted
from
the
pressures
exerted
on
women
by
society
to
the
pressures
individuals
exerted
on
other
individuals,
in
their
urge
to
dominate
and
control
one
and
other.
A
contemporary
reviewer
claimed
that
'Hedda's
soul
is
a-crawl
with
the
foulest
passions
of
humanity'.
That
it
is
also
possible
to
see
her
as
a
flawed
idealist
trapped
in
an
anguised
private
dilemma
indicates
how
far
Ibsen
had
brought
dramatic
prose
towards
the
expression
of
a
reality
beneath
the
surface
of
words.
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