A Doll's House
A concise, internationally influential realist drama and an accessible entry point to Ibsen's mature work.
Author guide
Henrik Ibsen Books in Order
Henrik Johan Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright and poet. After early historical and romantic dramas, including Brand and Peer Gynt, he became internationally influential through prose dramas examining marriage, morality, social conformity, truth, gender, and individual freedom. His major works include A Doll's House, Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder, and When We Dead Awaken.
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Peer Gynt
A major verse drama that represents Ibsen's romantic and mythic period.
Hedda Gabler
A central psychological drama showcasing Ibsen's mature theatrical technique.
Outside the series
Bibliography by category
Poetry (1)
- Poems
poetry-collection · 1871
Plays (26)
- Catilina
play · 1850
- The Burial Mound
play · 1850
- Norma, or the Love of a Politician
play · 1909
- St. John's Night
play · 1909
- The Feast at Solhaug
play · 1856
The Feast at Solhaug is the first publicly successful drama by Henrik Ibsen. It was written in 1855 and had its premier at Det norske Theater in Bergen on 2 January 1856. Part of the strength and charm of this play as well as Ibsen's…
- Lady Inger of Ostrat
play · 1857
- Olaf Liljekrans
play · 1902
- The Vikings at Helgeland
play · 1858
- Love's Comedy
play · 1862
Ibsen's first assured masterpiece, written in verse and in language loaded with vivid imagery and passion.
- The Pretenders
play · 1863
Henrik Ibsen was a Norwegian poet and dramatist; was born at Skien, a small village on Langesund Fjord, Norway, March 20, 1828. While in his twentieth year he became an apothecary's clerk in the village of Grimstad, during which period he…
- Brand
play · 1866
- Peer Gynt
play · 1867
Peer Gynt is a charming but lazy and arrogant peasant youth who leaves home to seek his fortune. Confident of success, he has one disastrous adventure after another. In one, he attends the wedding of a wealthy young woman he himself might…
- The League of Youth
play · 1869
"The League of Youth" is Henrik Ibsen's comedic play which is the story of Stensgaard, a charismatic would-be politician, who forms the 'League of Youth' party and attempts to get elected. The character of Stensgaard is supposedly based…
- Emperor and Galilean
play · 1873
- The Pillars of Society
play · 1877
- A Doll's House
play · 1879
A Doll's House, written two years after The Pillars of Society, was the first of Ibsen's plays to create a sensation and is now perhaps his most famous play, and required reading in many secondary schools and universities. The play was…
- Ghosts
play · 1881
Acclaimed director Richard Eyre's new adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's classic drama premiered at the Almeida Theatre in September 2013.
- An Enemy of the People
play · 1882
Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen wrote An Enemy of the People in 1882 as a response to the public outrage over his play Ghosts. Part comedy, part serious drama, the play looks at Dr. Thomas Stockmann's struggle to uphold the truth in the…
- The Wild Duck
play · 1884
The Wild Duck is an 1884 play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. Guided by a fervent strain of idealism, Gregers endeavors to reveal the truth to Hjalmar, and thereby free him from the mendacity which surrounds him. To that end,…
- Rosmersholm
play · 1886
Duncan Macmillan's stunning and resonant adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Rosmersholm. This revival of a masterpiece charts love, politics, past and future, with plenty of twists thrown in for good measure. Rosmersholm is positioned against…
- The Lady from the Sea
play · 1888
- Hedda Gabler
play · 1890
"In 1890, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen completed Hedda Gabler, a play that questioned the role of women in Victorian society through its portrayal of its title character, a young woman trapped in a disappointing marriage. Having been…
- The Master Builder
play · 1892
With The Master Builder - or Master Builder Solness, as the title runs in the original - we enter upon the final stage in Ibsen's career. "You are essentially right," the poet wrote to Count Prozor in March 1900, when you say that the…
- Little Eyolf
play · 1894
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
- John Gabriel Borkman
play · 1896
