Ghosts | The Sun Always Rises: Ibsen's Ghosts as Tragedy?
Corrigan views Mrs. Alving in Ghosts as divided between her intellectual ideals and an ‘‘emotional inheritance’’ over which she has no control.
Ghosts created the biggest stir in Europe of all of Ibsen’s plays. It was the hallmark of the Free Theatre movement. Antoine at the Théâtre Libre, Brahm at the Freie Buehne, and Grein at the Independent Theatre in London all produced this play as a symbol and a harbinger of their freedom. But the play was violently received. It shocked respectable middle-class audiences everywhere; it was condemned and banned; for the young turks of liberalism it was a banner to be waved on high. From the beginning the play had a notoriety that Ibsen only partially intended....
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