This volume contains Ibsens two most famous and frequently read, studied and performed plays about women, A Dolls 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. Also included is An Enemy of the People (1883), whose central character was the actor Konstantin Stanislavskis favourite role. This volume contains Ibsens two most famous plays about women: A Dolls 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 (1882), whose central character was Stanislavskys favorite role. Meyers translations of Ibsen are a major fact in ones general sense of post-war drama. Their vital pace, their unforced insistence on the poetic center of Ibsens genius, have beaten academic versions from the field.-George Steiner Crisp and cobweb-free, purged of verbal Victoriana.-Kenneth Tynan Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) is generally regarded as the father of modern theatre: His influence on contemporaries and following generations, whether directly or indirectly ... can hardly be overestimated.-John Russell Taylor