This volume contains Ibsen's two most famous plays about women: "A Doll's House"
(1879), his first international success, which "exploded like a bomb into
contemporary life," and "Hedda Gabler" (1890), 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" (1882), whose central character was Stanislavsky's favorite role.
"Meyer's translations of Ibsen are a major fact in one's general sense of
post-war drama. Their vital pace, their unforced insistence on the poetic center
of Ibsen's genius, have beaten academic versions from the field."--George
Steiner
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