Author(s): Henrik Ibsen

Plays

A Doll's House (1879) was Ibsen's first international success, which ''exploded like a bomb into contemporary life. Hedda Gabler (1890) is now one of his most popular plays, but greeted at first with bewilderment and outrage (''The play is simply a bad escape of moral sewage-gas'' Pictorial World). Also included is An Enemy of the People (1883), whose central character was the actor Konstantin Stanislavski''s favourite role. Michael Meyer''s translations are ''crisp and cobweb-free, purged of verbal Victoriana'' (Kenneth Tynan)'