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IMPERFECT IBSENITES

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From: The Village Voice
Date: 20050831
Author:McNulty, Charles

Poet or proselytizer: Will the real Henrik please stand up?

IMPERFECT IBSENITES

Next year marks the centennial of Henrik Ibsen's death, and amid an explosion of revivals of his work worldwide, big plans are under way in Norway to commemorate the anniversary of the planet's reputedly most produced dramatist after Shakespeare. For many of us, Ibsen is Norway, the cultural face of that Scandinavian nation, where the great prose plays from Pillars of Society to When We Dead Awaken are set. The playwright, who lived in a state of self-imposed exile for more than two decades and had what can be ...

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