Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen (bill gates books recommendations .TXT) 📕

ts maywell rank as Ibsen's greatest work. It was the play which firstgave the full measure of his technical and spiritual originalityand daring. It has done far more than any other of his plays to"move boundary-posts." It has advanced the frontiers of dramaticart and implanted new ideals, both technical and intellectual, inthe minds of a whole generation of playwrights. It ranks withHernani and _La Dame aux Camélias_ among the epoch-making playsof the nineteenth century, while in point of essential originalityit towers above them. We cannot, I think, get nearer to the truththan Georg Brandes did in the above-quoted phrase from his firstnotice of the play, describing it as not, perhaps, the poet'sgreatest work, but certainly his noblest deed. In another essay,Brandes has pointed to it, with equal justice, as marking Ibsen'sfinal breach with his early-one might almost say his hereditaryromanticism. He here becomes, at last, "the most modern of themoderns." "This, I am convinced," s