Master Builder and Other Plays

The four plays in this volume, written late in Ibsen''s career as a dramatist, move away from his earlier preoccupation with people at odds with society to instead explore the inward struggle with their own thoughts, feelings and dreams. The Master Builder (1892) depicts a powerful man whose illusions collapse in the face of a young woman''s courageous common sense. In Rosmersholm (1886), an ideal...