Henrik Ibsen 
Ibsen Plays: 2 
A Doll’s House; an Enemy of the People; Hedda Gabler

This volume contains Ibsen»s two most famous and frequently read, studied and performed plays about women: A Doll»s House (1879), his first international success, which »exploded like a bomb into contemporary life», and Hedda Gabler (1890), now one of his most popular plays, but greeted at first with bewilderment and outrage (»The play is simply a bad escape of moral sewage-gas» Pictorial World). Also included is An Enemy of the People (1883), whose central character was the actor Konstantin Stanislavski»s favourite role.Michael Meyer»s translations are »crisp and cobweb-free, purged of verbal Victoriana» (Kenneth Tynan)