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Four dramas by the nineteenth-century Norwegian playwright probe the hypocrisies and peccadilloes of society, the role of women, and the ways in which individuals seek to assert dominance and control over others

Dramatizes confrontations with family guilt, social hypocrisy, conventional morality, and material ethics in this collection of four plays--A Doll House, The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler, and The Master Builder--that capture the author's brilliant contributions to the theater. Reissue.