The complete online text of Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen.

"In the English-speaking world today Henrik Ibsen has become one of the three major classics of the theatre," wrote Martin Esslin in an essay included in Ibsen and the Theatre: The Dramatist in Production. "Shakespeare, Chekhov and Ibsen are at the very...

The Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) developed realistic techniques that changed the entire course of Western drama. There is very little in modern drama that does not owe a debt to him. Henrik Ibsen was born on March 20, 1828, in the town o...

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GHOSTS. In western Germanic languages words similar to the modern English ghost and the German Geist seem to be derived from roots indicating fury, wounding, or tearing in pieces. The spelling with gh in English appeared first in a work printed by...

Ghosts (original Norwegian title: Gengangere) is a play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It was written in 1881 and first staged in 1882.[1] Like many of Ibsen's better-known plays, Ghosts is a scathing commentary on 19th century...

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The uproar Ghosts caused when first published by Henrik Ibsen

Haunted and motivated by public opinion, the eccentric characters of Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen destroy their own lives and those of others. Regina, the maid, Manders, the pastor and Mrs. Alving, a widower, are all prime examples. By the end of Ghosts, the true essence of the characters are revealed and nothing is as it had appeared.