Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism - Moi, Toril

Published to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of his death, this is a major critical study of Henrik Ibsen by a leading literary theorist. 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.