Book description
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) was a Norwegian playwright and poet whose realistic, symbolic and often controversial plays revolutionised European theatre. He is widely regarded as the father of modern drama.
Michael Meyer gives us a wonderfully detailed picture of the theatre in which Ibsen worked… and through it all he traces the slow, painful struggle of a poet to contain his rioting imagination within the strict confines of the nineteenth-century theatre. So careful and so real is his picture of Ibsen that the final glimmering of success becomes, reading the book, as moving as if we had some share in it.
