Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism Art, Theater, Philosophy

Published to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of his death, this is first major critical study in English of Henrik Ibsen for almost forty years. Toril Moi offers a radical reappraisal of Ibsen's place in the birth of modernism and the origins of modern theatre, his influence on other writers, and the connection between his visual imagination and his plays.