Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Johan Ibsen is one of the most highly regarded playwrights in history. Ibsen's plays are usually about social criticism, often attacking the hypocrisy of family life or bourgeois values. His first major success came with "A Doll's House" (1879). The protagonist Nora leaves her husband Torvald after he learns that she forged a signature to give herself permission to borrow money for him. Ibsen also wrote "Enemy of the People."