Ghosts

Henrik Ibsen was a 19th-century Norwegian playwright who is credited with being perhaps the biggest contributor to Modern theatre. Ibsen wrote many classic plays, such as A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, and An Enemy of the People, and he is still the most widely performed playwright after Shakespeare. Ghosts was first performed in Chicago, Illinois in 1882. The play is notable for its harsh commentary of late 19th-century morality. Ghosts was controversial at the time of its release but is now recognized as one of the most important plays of its time.

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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, 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. --This text refers to an alternate paperback edition.

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