Ghosts Author:Henrik Ibsen Ghosts is a keywork in the modern theater--one of the first to convey a theme counter to conventional sexual morality and to theater conventions as well. These conventions are the "ghosts" which plague the heroine, Helen Alving, and destroy her chance for happiness. Ibse's techniques in GHOSTS established the form of the realist theater which ... more »survives today. This edition of GHOSTS contains the full text in translation by Kai Jurgenson and Fobert Schenkkan, excerpts from Ibsen's correspondence, critical commentary by George Bernard Shaw, Eric Bentley and Francis Fergusson, a story embodying a discussion of the play by Lionel Trillin, and the satirical poems by Max Beerbohm and James Joyce.« less