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- Season 1 James Joyce: Ulysses
- Season 1 Joseph Conrad: The Secret Agent
- Season 1 Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 'Crime and Punishment'
- Season 1 Marcel Proust: A la recherche du temps perdu
- Season 1 Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain
- Season 1 Henrik Ibsen: The Master Playwright
- Season 1 Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway
- Season 1 Luigi Pirandello: In Search of an Author
- Season 1 T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land
- Season 1 Franz Kafka: The Trial
- Season 1 Ten Great Writers: The Seminar
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers - Season 1 Episode 6 Henrik Ibsen: The Master Playwright
0.00 48 minutes This program, narrated by Ibsen biographer Michael Meyer, charts the development of Henrik Ibsen’s style over four periods: his early years of failure; his epic dramas; his sociological plays, such as A Doll’s House, Ghosts, and Rosmersholm; and his final plays, including Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder, and Little Eyolf, in which he dealt with the dark interior of the human soul. Televised productions and theater excerpts showcase Ibsen’s works, while writers John Mortimer and D. M. Thomas and psychologist Anthony Storr consider their complexity and treatment of daring themes such as women’s rights, venereal disease, and parental responsibility.
