This volume contains Ibsen''s two most famous and frequently read, studied and performed plays about women: A Doll''s House (1879), his first international success, which ''exploded like a bomb into contemporary life'', and Hedda Gabler (1890), now one of his most popular plays, but greeted at first with bewilderment and outrage (''The play is simply a bad escape of moral sewage-gas'' Pictorial World). Also included is An Enemy of the People (1883), whose central character was the actor Konstantin Stanislavski''s favourite role.Michael Meyer''s translations are ''crisp and cobweb-free, purged of verbal Victoriana'' (Kenneth Tynan)
