Introduction

The Text of the Plays

Peer Gynt

The Realist Cycle

A Doll House

The Wild Duck

Hedda Gabler

The Master Builder

Backgrounds

CORRESPONDENCE AND DOCUMENTS

Peer Gynt

To Björnstjerne Björnson, 9 December 1867

To Björnstjerne Björnson, 28 December 1867

To Edward Grieg, 23 January 1874

To Ludwig Passarge, 16 June 1880

To Edmund Gosse, 15 January 1874

A Doll House

The Alternative German Ending

To the Nationaltidende, 17 February 1880

To Heinrich Laube, 18 February 1880

To Moritz Prozor, 23 January 1891

Speech at the Banquet of the Norwegian League for Women’s Rights

The Wild Duck

To Frederik Hegel, 2 September 1884

To Hans Schrøder, 14 November 1884

To August Lindberg, 22 November 1884

Hedda Gabler

To Moritz Prozor, 4 December 1890]

To Hans Schrøder, 27 December 1890

To Kristina Steen, 14 January 1891

Autobiographical

Sketch of Childhood

To Magdalene Thoresen, 3 December 1865

To Björnstjerne Björnson, 28 January 1865

To Geor(e) Brandes, 20 December 1870

To Geor(e) Brandes, 17 February 1871

To Geor(e) Brandes, 24 September 1871

To Geor(e) Brandes, 30 April 1873

To John Paulsen, 20 September 1879

To Geor(e) Brandes, 11 October 1896

To Geor(e) Brandes, 3 June 1897

To the Reader

Criticism

PEER GYNT

W. H. Auden—Genius and Apostle

A DOLL HOUSE

Bernard Shaw—A Doll’s House Again

Rolf Fjelde—Introduction to A Doll House

Sandra Saari—Female Becomes Human: Nora Transformed

THE WILD DUCK

J.S. Welhaven—Søfuglen (The Sea Bird)

Rainer Maria Rilke—Letter to Clara Rilke

Michael Goldman—Style as Vision: The Wild Duck, Child Abuse, and History

HEDDA GABLER

Henry James—On the Occasion of Hedda Gabler

THE MASTER BUILDER

Henry James—On the Occasion of The Master Builder

Brian Johnston—Plot and Story in The Master Builder

GENERAL THEMES

Einar Haugen—Poetry in the Round

Jeanette Lee—Ibsen’s Symbolism Defined