Ibsen Plays: 5

The two epic plays in this volume stand, together with Peer Gynt and The Pretenders, at the fulcrum of Ibsen''s career. Brand (1865) stated sharply and vividly the necessity of following one''s private conscience and ''being oneself''. It created an immediate sensation and was hailed by Strindberg as ''the voice of a Savonarola''. Emperor and Galilean (1873), which Ibsen referred to as his masterp...