Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen

Four Major Plays by Henrik Ibsen A Doll's House Hedda Gabler Translated by Edmund Gosse and William Archer With an introduction by William Archer The Master Builder Translated by Edmund Gosse and William Archer Introduction by William Archer Ghosts A Domestic Tragedy in Three Acts Translated by R. Farquharson Sharp Henrik Johan Ibsen; 20 March 1828 - 23 May 1906, was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of realism" and is one of the founders of Modernism in theatre. His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, The Wild Duck, When We Dead Awaken, Pillars of Society, The Lady from the Sea, Rosmersholm, The Master Builder and John Gabriel Borkman. He is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare, and A Doll's House became the world's most performed play by the early 20th century.