Ivo de Figueiredo

A magnificent new biography of Henrik Ibsen, among the greatest modern playwrights “A superb account of the social and political atmosphere of Scandinavia in Ibsen’s time, and of Ibsen’s peculiar and inconsistent place within it.” —Andrew Katzenstein, Harper’s “A stellar life of the celebrated father of modern European drama.” —Choice Henrik Ibsen (1820–1908) is arguably the most important dramatist of...