Henrik Ibsen (Critical Survey of Drama)

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Henrik Ibsen’s volume of poetry, Digte, was published in 1871; Ibsen: Letters and Speeches appeared in English translation in 1964, and The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen appeared between 1906 and 1912 and in 1928.

Achievements

Henrik Ibsen is widely acknowledged as the father of modern drama, but his significance in literature and history overshadows the influence of his revolutionary stage techniques and his iconoclastic concept of the theater. James Joyce observed of Ibsen, his youthful idol, “It may be...

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