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)