Name: Henrik Ibsen: The Master Playwright
Released: 1988-02-14

The Modern World: Ten Great Writers

S1 · E6 — Henrik Ibsen: The Master Playwright

S1:E6 · Henrik Ibsen: The Master Playwright

Episodes

11 episodes in this season

James Joyce: Ulysses

Joseph Conrad: The Secret Agent

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 'Crime and Punishment'

Marcel Proust: A la recherche du temps perdu

Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain

Now Playing

Henrik Ibsen: The Master Playwright

Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway

Luigi Pirandello: In Search of an Author

T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land

E10

Franz Kafka: The Trial

E11

Ten Great Writers: The Seminar

The Modern World: Ten Great Writers

TV Series

19888.0

Documentary

Now playing

Henrik Ibsen: The Master Playwright

Season 1 · Episode 6 · Feb 14, 1988

This program, narrated by Ibsen biographer Michael Meyer, charts the development of Henrik Ibsen’s style over four periods: his early years of failure; his epic dramas; his sociological plays, such as A Doll’s House, Ghosts, and Rosmersholm; and his final plays, including Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder, and Little Eyolf, in which he dealt with the dark interior of the human soul. Televised productions and theater excerpts showcase Ibsen’s works, while writers John Mortimer and D. M. Thomas and psychologist Anthony Storr consider their complexity and treatment of daring themes such as women’s rights, venereal disease, and parental responsibility.

More details

The Modern World: Ten Great Writers

TV Series

19888.0

Documentary

Now playing

Henrik Ibsen: The Master Playwright

Season 1 · Episode 6 · Feb 14, 1988

More details