Four Great Plays by Ibsen Author:Henrik JOhan Ibsen Four Great Plays By Ibsen — Henrik Ibsen's place as the creator of the modern social drama of ideas is unquestioned. His unremitting attacks on teh outworn insitutions of society and the stifling hypocrisy of those who pretended to subscribe to them, brough storms of nervous protest from his critics. "Revoltingly suggestive and blasphemous," "s... more »candalous," "noisome corruption," "foul and "filthy" they said. Yet Ibsen persisted; he shocked the unthinking and blasted through the thick fog of convention to the restless human passions hidden underneath. Today, his plays continue to throw the bright light of reson into some murky corners of the Victorian mind.« less